{"id":119082,"date":"2015-01-19T10:15:41","date_gmt":"2015-01-19T17:15:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=119082"},"modified":"2015-01-20T08:13:27","modified_gmt":"2015-01-20T15:13:27","slug":"lower-back-injuries-divers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/lower-back-injuries-divers\/","title":{"rendered":"Preventing Lower Back Injuries In Divers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Photo Courtesy: Matthew S. DeMaria<\/p>\n

By G. John Mullen<\/i><\/p>\n

SANTA CLARA – Competitive diving involves jumping from 1-, 3-, or 10-meter boards — as well as from cliffs even high than that — and doing somersaults\u00a0and twists in the air before entering the water. Divers jumping from a 10-meter platform reach\u00a0a velocity of 31.8 miles per hour before entering the water,\u00a0and decelerate to 20.5 miles\/hour upon impact, amounting to approximately 881.8 pounds of force upon impact with the\u00a0water (Narita 2013). That’s a lot of stress on the body, particularly the lower back.<\/p>\n

Researchers have found that\u00a0lower back pain (LBP) is the most frequently reported symptom in divers, which we corroborated, in\u00a0which the incidence of LBP in junior divers aged 13\u201317 was very high (38.4%). The specific types of lower back pain vary, from spondyloysis<\/a> to non-specific lower back pain.<\/p>\n

More on lower back pain, or Spondylolysis<\/h2>\n