Steve Dischiavi

High Point University · School of Health Sciences

Context: Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury risk reduction programs have become increasingly popular. As ACL injuries continue to reflect high incidence rates, the continued optimization of current risk reduction programs, and the exercises contained within them, is warranted. The exercises must evolve to align with new etiology data, but the...

Objective Research reports limited, mixed evidence on the effectiveness of physiotherapy management in the treatment of femoroacetabular impingement (FAI) syndrome. The purpose of this review was to (1) identify what therapeutic exercises are being utilized in the non-surgical management of patients with FAI syndrome; (2) map the extent to which re...

Objectives: Current best evidence has reported that therapeutic exercise programs that are designed to treat patellofemoral pain (PFP) should include both hip and knee specific exercises. The purpose of this review was to (1) examine the quality/comprehensiveness of exercise reporting in this field; (2) quantify the extent to which individual exer...

Knee injuries such as ACL tears commonly occur and there is a high re-injury rate after primary ACL reconstruction with figures estimated at 25%-33%. Clinicians often use hip strengthening as a key component of knee rehabilitation. Evidence suggests that adopting a "regional" or "proximal" approach to rehabilitation can increase hip strength, but m...

Clinical Relevance: Three dimensional positioning of the body to replicate throwing alters the tensional demands that is distributed across the body, ultimately diminishing end-ROM of a baseball players throwing shoulder. While further analysis of the FAST-OA is needed, this accessible and easy to perform clinical test may provide useful informatio...

Context Anatomical and in vivo studies suggest that muscles function synergistically as part of a myofascial chain. A related theory is that certain myofascial techniques have a remote and clinically important effect on range of motion (ROM). Objective To determine if remote myofascial techniques can effectively increase range of motion at a dista...

Background: Overuse lower extremity injuries are common in women's court volleyball players and are likely due to the repetitive jumping and landing the sport requires. The purpose of this study was to quantify jump load during collegiate women's volleyball, describe the quantity of double-leg (DL) to single-leg (SL) landing strategies, and compar...

The risk of knee injury in sport may be related to deviations in lower-limb alignment. An example of biomechanical deviation is dynamic knee valgus, considered by many to be one of the most important predictors of serious knee injury; however, the predictive validity of commonly used screening tests for dynamic knee valgus has recently been questio...

Objectives: To determine if exercise-based rehabilitation reduces reinjury following acute ankle sprain. Our secondary objective was to assess if rehabilitation efficacy varies according to exercise content and training volume. Data sources: The following electronic databases were searched: EMBASE, MEDLINE, the Cochrane Central Register of Contr...

Background Late-stage rehabilitation programs often incorporate ‘sport-specific’ demands, but may not optimally simulate the in-game volume or intensity of such activities as sprinting, cutting, jumping, and lateral movement. Objective The aim of this review was to characterize, quantify, and compare straight-line running and multi-directional dema...

Human movement is a complex orchestration of events involving many different body systems. Understanding how these systems interact during musculoskeletal movements can directly inform a variety of research fields including: injury etiology, injury prevention and therapeutic exercise prescription. Traditionally scientists have examined human moveme...

Study Design Meta-Analysis. Objectives Examine the effectiveness of ankle sprain rehabilitation; subgroup rehabilitation programmes based on training volume and training emphasis and highlight key components associated with clinical effect. Background Ankle sprains commonly occur in sports and have a high re-injury rate. Rehabilitation exercise i...

Objective: To produce a best evidence synthesis of exercise prescription used when treating shoulder pathology in the overhead athlete. Design: A systematic review of exercises used in overhead athletes including case studies and clinical commentaries. Data sources: MEDLINE, PubMed, SPORTDiscus and CINAHL from database inception through July 8...

Objectives: To determine if the Lower Quarter Y-Balance Test (LQYBT) is predictive of lower extremity injury in NCAA Division 1 athletes. Design: Prospective cohort, therapy. Participants: One hundred eighty-nine NCAA Division 1 athletes participated in the study and underwent a preparticipation screen that included the LQYBT. Maximal reach di...

Athletic injury and its sequelae remain a primary concern of sports professionals globally. As a result, screening athletes to predict injury is of great interest, especially if the screening/testing procedure is non-invasive, effective, and efficient. One such procedure of increasing popularity is the Functional Movement Screen (FMS), which, in 20...

Objectives: To determine the efficacy of physical therapy on pain and physical function in patients with femoroacetabular impingement. Design: Randomized, participant- and assessor blinded controlled trial pilot study. Methods: This trial was registered at ClinicalTrials.gov (NCT01814124) and reported according to Consolidated Standards of Rep...

Deficits in proximal hip strength or neuromuscular control may lead to dynamic lower extremity valgus. Measures of dynamic lower extremity valgus have been previously shown to relate to increased risk of several knee pathologies, specifically anterior cruciate ligament ruptures and patellofemoral pain. Therefore, hip-focused interventions have gain...

Unlabelled: Rehabilitation following hip arthroscopy for femoroacetabular impingement (FAI) and labral-chondral dysfunction has evolved rapidly over the past 15 years. There have been multiple commentaries published on rehabilitation following hip arthroscopy without any published standardized objective criteria to address the advancement of the a...