Purpose: This study aimed to provide the descriptive statistics regarding the injury epidemiology of Korean professional basketball players. Methods: In this study, athlete exposures (AEs) and time exposures (TEs) were collected from the 38 basketball players (17 women) who participated in the 2019–2020 regular season. Injury rate (IR) and 95% confidence interval (CI) were calculated. Results: A total of 35 injuries were reported. The overall rate of injury was 5.65 per 1,000 AEs and 0.06 per 1,000 TEs. Approximately 65.7% of all the injuries occurred during the official games, with lower limb injuries accounting for about 57.1% of all the injuries. Ankle was the most frequently injured body area (25.7%) with a IR of 1.45 per 1,000 AEs. Sprain accounted for the largest portion with 54.3% overall, followed by strain, contusion and cartilage damage. The most common cause of injuries was contact with another athletes (37.2%), and the recurrence of past injuries (20.0%) also accounted for a high proportion. Conclusion Korean professional basketball players experience a high rate of injuries occurring during official games.Ankle sprains were the most common ones. Contact-caused injuries accounted for the highest portion.

Spontaneous dissection of the middle cerebral artery could result in thromboembolic stroke caused by the intramural hematoma. Dissection should be considered as a possible etiology in a young stroke patient, but it is not straightforward in an emergency situation. Moreover, the efficacy and safety of thrombolytic treatment in the acute stage are unknown. We applied intravenous and intra-arterial stent thrombectomy with the Solitaire device successfully in a patient with acute left middle cerebral artery occlusion due to spontaneous dissection.
Emergencies ; Hematoma ; Humans ; Infarction* ; Infarction, Middle Cerebral Artery ; Middle Cerebral Artery* ; Stents* ; Stroke ; Thrombectomy*

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Cerebellum* ; Magnetic Resonance Imaging ; Wernicke Encephalopathy*