Use of the lower extremity functional test to predict injury risk in active athletes.

CONCLUSIONS: The findings from the current study suggest that the LEFT appears to be a reliable and valid functional assessment tool for predicting low back or lower limb injury risk in these college athletes, especially when movement quality and symptom scores were used in combination.
PMID: 32744048 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Journal of Sports Medicine and Physical Fitness - August 4, 2020 Category: Sports Medicine Tags: J Sports Med Phys Fitness Source Type: research