Description of cortical fibula structure in trained footballers using peripheral quantitative computed tomography, with dynamometric correlates

SERGIO LUSCHER; LAURA NOCCIOLINO; NICOLÁS PILOT; LEANDRO PISANI; GUSTAVO ROBERTO COINTRY; JOERN RITTWEGER; ALEX IRELAND; JOSÉ LUIS FERRETTI; RICARDO FRANCISCO CAPOZZA

Valencia

Congreso; XL EUROPEAN SYMPOSIUM ON CALCIFIED TISSUES; 2018

Eur Calcif Tissue Society (ECTS)

The human fibula diaphysis is insensitive to disuse and its responses to exercise are scarcely studied. In this study, 18 serial pQCT scans of the whole fibula were taken and the strength of the external rotation of the feet was dynamometrically determined in the dominant (kicking) leg of 15 male football players (4-8 years of training) and of 15 untrained controls aged 18-30 years. Trained individuals had higher bone mass (total and cortical BMC, cortical area) than untrained ones throughout the bone (about +13%, p