My clinical question is in endurance athletes what is the most effective program to prevent medial tibial stress syndrome?
I decided I wanted to pursue this question after my internship experience with DCI. Many injuries and pain the performers had were due to medial tibial stress syndrome and a few of these injuries progressed to injuries more strenuous such as stress fractures. Among 150 members, each day I saw on average 40 members with complaints of lower extremity pain. The main complaints of the members were calf pain and shin splints, arch issues, iliotibial friction syndrome, and hip flexor tightness. My clinical placement this semester is with cross country and cheer and dance. Both of these sports are also more likely to have lower extremity injuries and for cross country it is very likely that at some point in their lives they have experienced shin splints. I believe this research will result in a beneficial strategy for these groups of athletes to prevent lower extremity injury. My ultimate goal with this is to come up with a prevention program that I can suggest to other DCI medical staff and athletic trainers to help prevent lower extremity injuries such as medial tibial stress syndrome. My investigation committee is Beth Funkhouser, ATC, Joe Lynch, ATC, and Mike Caro, CSCS. I chose these people to be a part of my committee because they are all heavily involved in literature and I know they will be beneficial when it comes to finding evidence and journals. I specifically chose Mike Caro as my content expert because he is highly competent in creating prevention programs himself so he must have evidence to support his practice. I am excited to work on this PIO question and to ultimately turn it around into something beneficial for clinical practices.
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