TY - JOUR
AU1 - Erickson, Steven
AB - tics, and acrobatic gymnastics (16). Gymnastics continues to be one of the most popular and injury-prone Most participants perform artistic gym- sports in the United States. The National Collegiate Athletic Association nastics, which is the focus of this re- cites women’s artistic gymnastics as second only to spring football in its view. Artistic gymnastics includes both rate of injury during practices, and fourth overall when combining the women’s and the men’s disciplines. competition and practice injury rates. Because of the physical demands The women compete in four events, i.e., of the sport of gymnastics, a wide variety of injuries occur. This article vault, uneven parallel bars, beam, and reviews some of the most recent literature on the sport of artistic floor, and the men compete in six events, gymnastics. A broad differential may be required to diagnose correctly a i.e., floor exercise, pommel horse, rings, presenting injury in a gymnast. vault, parallel bars, and high bar. Re- search on the other disciplines was not included because of the breadth of the topics and the paucity of published articles. Introduction This article will review recent publications related to the sport of artistic gymnastics. Recent research and other per- Gymnastics Injury 
TI - Update on Artistic Gymnastics
JF - Current Sports Medicine Reports
DO - 10.1249/JSR.0b013e31822dc3b2
DA - 2011-09-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/wolters-kluwer-health/update-on-artistic-gymnastics-DEEeFilZCu
SP - 304
EP - 309
VL - 10
IS - 5
DP - DeepDyve
ER -