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HLA B27-positive ankylosing spondylitis professional soccer player with a successful return to sports by Eduard Bezuglov; Maria Shoshorina; Mikhail Butovskiy; Yuri Kuklin; Kamila Kubacheva; Vladimir Khaitin; Ryland Morgans is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.

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Background Ankylosing spondylitis (AS) is a disease of young adulthood and without adequate treatment it dramatically reduces physical activity. Aim of the work To present a case with AS that successfully returned to professionally playing sports after treatment. Case presentation A 19-year-old Eastern European Russian professional male soccer player with AS complained of right ankle joint pain not related to any trauma or injury and gradually intensified. The player's regular medical tests during the preceding years and were unremarkable. He would occasionally complain of discomfort in the ankle joints, sacroiliac area and symphysis but did not limit his regular training activity. He received the standard treatment of sports injuries that included: 14 days of limited physical activity, ibuprofen 200 mg twice/day, cryotherapy and joint taping. Examination revealed mobile joints, regular in shape without any swelling. Erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) was 60 mm/1st hr and C-reactive protein (CRP) 50 mg/dl. AS was diagnosed as he fulfilled the classification criteria. HLA-B27 was positive, left sacroiliitis was present on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). The Bath AS disease activ

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Author

Eduard Bezuglov; Maria Shoshorina; Mikhail Butovskiy; Yuri Kuklin; Kamila Kubacheva; Vladimir Khaitin; Ryland Morgans

Publisher

Elsevier BV

Published

2023

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)