The Role of Imaging in Return to Play

Claire: Is imaging what's needed to differentiate between these different muscle injuries? Seth: It depends who we're talking about at any one time period here in elite sports, where we might want to get a idea about the prognostic return to play time frames. Claire: How does it really influence it? Whether the tendons inside the muscles are involved or whether the tendon, the main aponeurosis for some of these muscles is involved and the extent of that injury.Seth: If there's a significant proportion of these intramuscular tendons that are damaged, then again, that seems to increase the level of recovery.