Conservative Management and Postoperative Return to Sport in Endurance Athletes with Flow Limitations in the Iliac Arteries: A Scoping Review

01 december 2024 Background: Flow limitations in the iliac arteries (FLIA) is a sport-related vascular condition increasingly recognised as an occupational risk for professional cyclists and other endurance athletes. Surgical reconstruction is the definitive treatment...

Ankle to brachial pressure index in normal subjects and trained cyclists with exercise-induced leg pain

01 november 2001 Purpose: This study compared ankle to brachial pressure indices (ABPI) before and after maximal exercise in three groups in order to investigate maximal exercise testing and ABPI as a useful procedure for the differential diagnosis of exercise-induced...

Exercise induced leg pain in young athletes misdiagnosed as pain of musculo-skeletal origin

Traumatic occlusion of the external iliac artery in a racing cyclist: a cause of ill defined leg pain

01 juni 1997 Stenosis of the external iliac artery in healthy athletes, although uncommon, has been reported in competition cyclists. A case of a racing cyclist whose chronic vague leg symptoms were incorrectly attributed to L4/5 nerve root irritation is reported....