title: Pre-season adductor squeeze test and HAGOS function sport and recreation subscale scores predict groin injury in Gaelic football players.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To determine if pre-season adductor squeeze test and HAGOS function, sport and recreation subscale scores can identify Gaelic football players at risk of developing groin injury.
  
  
  METHODS
  Prospective study.
  
  
  METHODS
  Senior inter-county Gaelic football team.
  
  
  METHODS
  Fifty-five male elite Gaelic football players (age = 24.0 ± 2.8 years, body mass = 84.48 ± 7.67 kg, height = 1.85 ± 0.06 m, BMI = 24.70 ± 1.77 kg/m2) from a single senior inter-county Gaelic football team.
  
  
  METHODS
  Occurrence of groin injury during the season.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Ten time-loss groin injuries were registered representing 13% of all injuries. The odds ratio for sustaining a groin injury if pre-season adductor squeeze test score was below 225 mmHg, was 7.78. The odds ratio for sustaining a groin injury if pre-season HAGOS function, sport and recreation subscale score was < 87.5 was 8.94. Furthermore, for each additional point on the numerical rating scale pain rating during performance of the adductor squeeze test, the odds of groin injury increased by 2.16.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  This study provides preliminary evidence that pre-season adductor squeeze test and HAGOS function, sport and recreation subscale scores can be used to identify Gaelic football players at risk of developing groin injury.
authors.affiliation: School of Public Health, Physiotherapy and Sports Science, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland; Institute for Sport and Health, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland. Electronic address: eamonn.delahunt@ucd.ie.
authors.forename: Eamonn
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Delahunt
authors.affiliation: School of Public Health, Physiotherapy and Sports Science, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.
authors.forename: Helen
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Fitzpatrick
authors.affiliation: School of Public Health, Physiotherapy and Sports Science, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.
authors.forename: Catherine
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Blake
mesh_terms: D005080:Exercise Test; D005538:Football / Q000293:injuries*; D006119:Groin / Q000293:injuries*; D006801:Humans; D007494:Ireland; D008297:Male; D018482:Muscle, Skeletal / Q000503:physiopathology*; D011237:Predictive Value of Tests; D011446:Prospective Studies; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Groin; Lower extremity; Physical therapy specialty; Risk factors