Short-Term Workload Patterns Before Achilles Tendon Rupture in National Basketball Association Players: A Descriptive Epidemiology Study.

Nineteen players (19 ATRs; mean age, 27.8 ± 3.2 years; mean league experience: 7.4 ± 3.2 years) sustained basketball-related ATRs.

Years of league experience were positively correlated with workload measures, including total season minutes ( P = .02) and minutes in the 5 games preceding rupture ( P = .0498), such that veteran players generally accumulated higher workload, whereas ATRs among less-experienced players occurred in the setting of comparatively lower observed workload.