Dr Nirav Pandya
@drniravpandya.bsky.social
Professor of UCSF Orthopedic Surgery | Dir. of Sports Med, Benioff Childrens
3. Style of play in today's NBA: The game is physically taxing in a different way than year's past. Players are significantly more explosive and agile than in the past. Larger and larger players are expected to play like guards. As a result, soft tissues are stressed unlike in year's past
June 24, 2025 at 2:06 AM
3. Style of play in today's NBA: The game is physically taxing in a different way than year's past. Players are significantly more explosive and agile than in the past. Larger and larger players are expected to play like guards. As a result, soft tissues are stressed unlike in year's past
2. Increased minute density: Increased minutes / game over season averages has been show to increase injury risk:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
The playoffs are set up in a way in which the stars players are playing at a higher intensity in a condensed period of time.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
The playoffs are set up in a way in which the stars players are playing at a higher intensity in a condensed period of time.
Acutely increased workload is correlated with significant injuries among national basketball association players - Matthew J Orringer, Nirav K Pandya, 2022
Background Particularly at the level of professional athletics, injury prevention is of critical importance. We hypothesized that elevated in-game statistics ov...
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June 24, 2025 at 2:06 AM
2. Increased minute density: Increased minutes / game over season averages has been show to increase injury risk:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
The playoffs are set up in a way in which the stars players are playing at a higher intensity in a condensed period of time.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
The playoffs are set up in a way in which the stars players are playing at a higher intensity in a condensed period of time.
Players have much more mileage on their bodies by the time they enter the league; increasing the risk of severe, soft tissue injury. If you have not read it before, read the article from @baxterholmes.bsky.social from a few years ago that captures this perfectly:
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Under the knife: Exposing America's youth basketball crisis
In Part 2 of a two-part series, ESPN reveals how doctors, trainers and surgeons are forced to rebuild the world's best young basketball players.
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June 24, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Players have much more mileage on their bodies by the time they enter the league; increasing the risk of severe, soft tissue injury. If you have not read it before, read the article from @baxterholmes.bsky.social from a few years ago that captures this perfectly:
espn.com/nba/story/_/...
espn.com/nba/story/_/...
1. Youth sports / AAU basketball: This generation of players come into the league with significantly more mileage than players of generations past. Year-round AAU basketball at younger and younger ages (i.e single sport specialization) has been show to tremendously increase injury risk.
June 24, 2025 at 2:06 AM
1. Youth sports / AAU basketball: This generation of players come into the league with significantly more mileage than players of generations past. Year-round AAU basketball at younger and younger ages (i.e single sport specialization) has been show to tremendously increase injury risk.
Brady..sorry for the delayed response. It's multi-factorial but the fact that there wasn't some sort of mis-step that caused it its likely a combination of age and workload
May 17, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Brady..sorry for the delayed response. It's multi-factorial but the fact that there wasn't some sort of mis-step that caused it its likely a combination of age and workload