BACKGROUND: Research has shown that 32% of intercollegiate rowers develop @entity615 during their college career. HYPOTHESIS: Rowers who develop @entity615 in college are more likely than the general population to have @entity615 later in life. STUDY DESIGN: Survey. METHODS: Surveys from 1561 former intercollegiate rowing athletes were analyzed. Subjects who completed the surveys had graduated from college at a mean and median of 13 years previously, with a range of 0 to 20 years between graduation and completion of the survey. The survey was designed to determine the presence of @entity615 and its severity before, during, and after intercollegiate rowing. Back @entity158 was defined as @entity158 that lasted at least 1 week. RESULTS: Age was a significant predictor of @entity615 after college. Nevertheless, the lifetime prevalence of @entity615 in former intercollegiate rowers was no different from that of the general population (51.4% versus 60% to 80%). However, rowers who developed @entity615 in college had more subsequent @entity615 than rowers who were asymptomatic in college (78.9% versus 37.9%). Rowers who were asymptomatic in college had significantly lower rates of @entity615 as they aged than did the general population. The mean severity of current @entity615 was 3.5 +/- 1.9 on a scale of 1 to 10. CONCLUSIONS: Intercollegiate rowers are no more likely than the general population to have @entity615 later in life.

Back XXXX in former intercollegiate rowers. A long-term follow-up study.

@entity615 :: ('MESH:D001416', 'Disease') :: ['back pain'] @entity158 :: ('MESH:D010146', 'Disease') :: ['pain']
@entity158 :: (MESH:D010146,Disease) :: ['pain']
