caa a22 4500 605456992 CHVBK 20210128100220.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150901xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s00167-014-3069-3 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s00167-014-3069-3 Low back pain in female elite football and handball players compared with an active control group [Elektronische Daten] [Paula Tunås, Agnethe Nilstad, Grethe Myklebust] Purpose: The purpose of this cross-sectional study was to compare the prevalence of low back pain (LBP) among female elite football and handball players to a matched non-professional active control group. Methods: The participants were requested to answer a questionnaire based on standardized Nordic questionnaires for musculoskeletal symptoms to assess the prevalence of LBP. Included participants were elite female football (n=277) and handball players (n=190), and a randomly selected control group from the Norwegian population (n=167). Results: Fifty-seven percentage of the football players, 59% of the handball players and 60% of the control group had experienced LBP the previous year. There were no significant group differences in the prevalence of LBP ever (p=0.62), the previous year (p=0.85) or the previous 7days (p=0.63). For both sports, there was a significant increase in prevalence of LBP from the resting period to the competitive periods of the season (p≤0.001). Seventy percent of the goalkeepers in both football and handball had experienced LBP the previous year. Conclusion: There were no difference in LBP among female elite football and handball players compared with the control group. However, female elite athletes in football and handball reported a high prevalence of LBP compared to previous studies. The variations in LBP and playing positions indicate that specific field positions, in football and handball, is a risk factor for developing LBP. Level of evidence: III. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2014 Low back pain nationallicence Prevalence nationallicence Female nationallicence Elite athletes nationallicence Football nationallicence Handball nationallicence Tunås Paula Department of Sports Medicine, Oslo Sports Trauma Research Centre, Norwegian School of Sports Sciences, Ullevål Stadion, PB 4014, 0806, Oslo, Norway aut Nilstad Agnethe Department of Sports Medicine, Oslo Sports Trauma Research Centre, Norwegian School of Sports Sciences, Ullevål Stadion, PB 4014, 0806, Oslo, Norway aut Myklebust Grethe Department of Sports Medicine, Oslo Sports Trauma Research Centre, Norwegian School of Sports Sciences, Ullevål Stadion, PB 4014, 0806, Oslo, Norway aut Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy Springer Berlin Heidelberg 23/9(2015-09-01), 2540-2547 0942-2056 23:9<2540 2015 23 167 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00167-014-3069-3 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00167-014-3069-3 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Tunås Paula Department of Sports Medicine, Oslo Sports Trauma Research Centre, Norwegian School of Sports Sciences, Ullevål Stadion, PB 4014, 0806, Oslo, Norway aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Nilstad Agnethe Department of Sports Medicine, Oslo Sports Trauma Research Centre, Norwegian School of Sports Sciences, Ullevål Stadion, PB 4014, 0806, Oslo, Norway aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Myklebust Grethe Department of Sports Medicine, Oslo Sports Trauma Research Centre, Norwegian School of Sports Sciences, Ullevål Stadion, PB 4014, 0806, Oslo, Norway aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy Springer Berlin Heidelberg 23/9(2015-09-01), 2540-2547 0942-2056 23:9<2540 2015 23 167