If you're trying to get ripped like your favorite National Basketball Association (NBA) star, then you've probably been eagerly awaiting the end of the lockout. Now that it has, however, researchers warn that the players may want to learn from what happened after the National Football League (NFL) lockout, and be cautious of injury.
According to a guest editorial in the Journal of Orthopedic & Sports Physical Therapy, more potentially career-ending injuries were seen in the first two weeks of NFL training camp after the lockout than there were all season.
"Extrapolate what we've seen in the NFL, and I could see in the NBA in the range of one, two, three times higher rates of injury," said researcher Timothy Hewett, Ph.D. "This could be a historic event, where we start to think, 'Is there a potential for really putting players at risk by these legal wranglings?'"
According to the scientists, when players are on lockout, they did not have access to a professional sports medicine team. This increases the chance that they may have injured themselves while working out at home, and could sustain further injury when they being playing again.
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