Cricket Fast Bowling and the Lumbar Spine | Dr Pete Alway
Channel: Stuart McErlain-Naylor
Date: 2021-12-16

Lecture 5 of the #ScienceOfCricket series. Dr Pete Alway discusses lumbar spine bone adaptation and risk factors to lumbar bone stress injury in elite cricket fast bowlers. Topics include how the lumbar spine responds to cricket fast bowling, the technique factors driving this adaptation, the permanency of adaptations, epidemiology of lumbar bone stress injuries, and biomechanical technique factors associated with lumbar bone stress injuries in cricket fast bowling.

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00:00 The science of cricket
00:15 Cricket fast bowling and the lumbar spine
00:59 The structure of bone
03:31 Bone adaptation to physical activity
09:02 Cricket fast bowling
11:11 How does the lumbar spine respond to cricket fast bowling?
15:21 How does lumbar bone adaptation change with bowler age?
18:22 What technique factors drive lumbar bone adaptation in cricket fast bowling?
19:34 Is the asymmetric adaptation permanent (e.g. injury/off-season)?
23:28 What are lumbar bone stress injuries?
25:16 Epidemiology of injury in cricket
27:33 What are the risk factors to lumbar bone stress injury in cricket fast bowling?
32:14 How to prevent lumbar bone stress injury in cricket fast bowling (including workload)
37:30 Biomechanics (technique) and lumbar bone stress injury in cricket fast bowling

Studies mentioned:
Epidemiology and workload: https://bmjopensem.bmj.com/content/5/1/e000529.abstract
Lumbar spine asymmetry: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S8756328219303047?casa_token=WLfWcAnqD5IAAAAA:4o67-HMqBvbsVi7zqTA4UEq0tLTjJaFjHwuqwNDk7wi3whGqvy7LPNwLVLA--2h8OneWopYnj_54
Technique and lumbar bone stress injury: https://journals.lww.com/acsm-msse/Abstract/2021/03000/Cricket_Fast_Bowling_Technique_and_Lumbar_Bone.14.aspx
Technique and lumbar spine adaptation: https://journals.lww.com/acsm-msse/Abstract/9000/Lumbar_Bone_Mineral_Adaptation__The_Effect_of_Fast.95922.aspx 

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