This event brings together student scholars and their families, faculty and staff mentors, other members of the KSC community, area legislators, university trustees, and members of the Keene community in celebration of academic research and other forms of scholarship.
The purpose of this study is to identify the prevalence of risk factors of femoroacetabular impingement (FAI), a bony growth on either the femur or the acetabulum, in male and female ice hockey and soccer players. There is evidence to support that hockey and soccer players are at higher risk for FAI and literature supports that FAI negatively affects their performance. After being approved by the IRB in February 2018, research will be completed in the spring of 2018. Participants will take a demographic survey and the Hip Outcome Score (HOS) Sport Scale survey. Following, each participant will have goniometry measurements of the hip and selective tissue tests taken by the researchers. The hypothesis is that 40% of hockey and soccer players will have risk factors for FAI. Our second hypothesis is that males will be more likely than females to have the risk factors.
