Tomasz Walczak

Tomasz Walczak

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28Years (1999-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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7 December 2017 in PLOS ONE
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Monika GrygorowiczMonika Grygorowicz
Monika Grygorowicz
MMMartyna Michałowska
Martyna Michałowska
TWTomasz Walczak
Tomasz Walczak
AOAdam Owen
Adam Owen
Jakub GrabskiJakub Grabski
Jakub Grabski
TKTomasz Kotwicki
Tomasz Kotwicki
To measure the sensitivity and specificity of differences cut-off values for isokinetic Hcon/Qcon ratio in order to improve the capacity to evaluate (retrospectively) the injury of hamstring muscles in professional soccer screened with knee isokinetic tests. Retrospective study. Medical and biomechanical data of professional football players playing for the same team for at least one season between 2010 and 2016 were analysed. Hamstring strain injury cases and the reports generated via isokinetic testing were investigated. Isokinetic concentric(con) hamstring(H) and quadriceps(Q) absolute strength in addition with Hcon/Qcon ratio were examined for the injured versus uninjured limbs among injured players, and for the injured and non-injured players. 2 x 2 contingency table was used for comparing variables: predicted injured or predicted uninjured with actual injured or actual uninjured. Sensitivity, specificity, accuracy, positive and negative predictive values, and positive and negative likelihood ratio were calculated for three different cut-off values (0.47 vs. 0.6 vs. 0.658) to compare the discriminative power of an isokinetic test, whilst examining the key value of Hcon/Qcon ratio which may indicate the highest level of ability to predispose a player to injury. McNemar’s chi2 test with Yates’s correction was used to determine agreement between the tests. PQStat software was used for all statistical analysis, and an alpha level of p <0.05 was used for all statistical comparisons. 340 isokinetic test reports on both limbs of 66 professional soccer players were analysed. Eleven players suffered hamstring injuries during the analysed period. None of these players sustained recurrence of hamstring injury. One player sustained hamstring strain injury on both legs, thus the total number of injuries was 12. Application of different cut-off values for Hcon/Qcon significantly affected the sensitivity and specificity of isokinetic test used as a tool for muscle injury detection. The use of 0.47 of Hcon/Qcon as a discriminate value resulted in significantly lower sensitivity when compared to 0.658 threshold (sensitivity of 16.7% vs. 91.7%, respectively; t = 6.125,p = 0.0133). Calculated values of specificity (when three different cut-off were applied) were also significantly different. Threshold of 0.6 of Hcon/Qcon resulted with significantly lower specificity compared to 0.47 value (specificity of 46.9% vs. 94.5%, respectively; t = 153.0,p<0.0001), and significantly higher specificity when compared to 0.658 (specificity of 46.9% vs. 24.1%, respectively; t = 229.0, p<0.0001). The use of different cut-off values for Hcon/Qcon significantly affected the sensitivity and specificity of isokinetic testing. The interpretation of usefulness of isokinetic test as a screening tool in a group of male professional football players to predict hamstring injury occurrence within the next 12 months might be therefore significantly biased due to the different threshold values of Hcon/Qcon. Using one “normative” value as a cut-off (e.g. 0.47 or 0.60, or 0.658) to quantify soccer players (or not) to the group with a higher risk of knee injury might result in biased outcomes due to the natural strength asymmetry that is observed within the group of soccer players.

1 June 2009 in Mechanism and Machine Theory
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JBJacek Buśkiewicz
Jacek Buśkiewicz
Roman StarostaRoman Starosta
Roman Starosta
TWTomasz Walczak
Tomasz Walczak

20 April 2016
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TWTomasz Walczak
Tomasz Walczak
Jakub GrabskiJakub Grabski
Jakub Grabski
MGM Grajewska
M Grajewska
MMM Michałowska
M Michałowska

26 April 2019
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RFRenata Ferduła
Renata Ferduła
TWTomasz Walczak
Tomasz Walczak
SCSzczepan Cofta
Szczepan Cofta

24 October 2014 in Physica Status Solidi (b)
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TWTomasz Walczak
Tomasz Walczak
GSGrażyna Sypniewska-Kamińska
Grażyna Sypniewska-Kamińska
BMB. T. Maruszewski
B. T. Maruszewski
KWK. W. Wojciechowski
K. W. Wojciechowski

24 October 2017
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Jakub GrabskiJakub Grabski
Jakub Grabski
TWTomasz Walczak
Tomasz Walczak
MMMartyna Michałowska
Martyna Michałowska
MCMagdalena Cieślak
Magdalena Cieślak