Download or read book ACL Injuries in Female Athletes written by Robin West and published by Saunders. This book was released on 2018-12-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This easy-to-read reference presents a succinct overview of clinically-focused topics covering the prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation of ACL injuries in the female athlete. Written by two professional team physicians, it provides practical, focused information for orthopaedic and sports medicine surgeons and physicians. Covers ACL injury risk factors and prevention, including biomechanics, biology, and anatomy of the female athlete. Discusses graft choices, the biology of healing, rehabilitation and return to play, future options for treatment, and more. Addresses special considerations such as pediatric ACL and revision ACL. Consolidates today's available information and experience in this timely area into one convenient resource.

Download or read book Assessing and Modifying Neuromuscular Risk Factors for Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injury in Female Athletes written by Joanne Parsons and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Injury to the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) may have consequences for an athlete in the form of pain, decreased activity levels and early-onset osteoarthritis. Female athletes are at increased risk of injury, perhaps because of differences in neuromuscular function. Methods of identifying risk factors and effective prevention strategies for ACL injury have traditionally involved athletes of high school age or older. However by that age, the opportune time to intervene may have passed. This thesis involves a sequence of studies which measures the neuromuscular function of younger athletes, aged 10-14 years. First, the reliability of measuring strength and power of the lower extremity on an isokinetic dynamometer was explored. Torque and power of the hip flexors and knee extensors were the only measures with acceptable reliability. Conversely, peak velocity of all the tested hip and knee movements demonstrated acceptable reliability. A high amount of variability was found with all test movements, and so alternate tests should be used if measuring an individual athlete's ability. From the data collected within the reliability study, a sex comparison was undertaken to determine if neuromuscular power differed at this young age. It was determined that girls and boys between 10 and 14 years of age do not differ in terms of knee or hip movement velocity or power. There is evidence to suggest that sex differences exist by adulthood; further research is required to determine when the disparity becomes apparent. The final project was to determine whether strength training would improve the manner in which young female athletes land from a jump; a common ACL injury mechanism. This randomized controlled trial found no difference between the intervention group who trained their legs, and the control group who trained their arms. However those athletes with the poorest landings appeared to improve their movement pattern regardless of training regime. This thesis contributes to the literature by providing evidence for measurement protocols for young athletes, introducing neuromuscular power instead of strength into the investigation of contributing factors to injury, and by furthering the examination of strength training as an effective component of prevention programs.

Download or read book ACL Injuries in the Female Athlete written by Frank R. Noyes and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-09-07 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This successful book, now in a revised and updated second edition, reviews all aspects of anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries in female athletes, with the focus on complete, noncontact ACL injuries. The opening section discusses anatomy and biomechanics and explains the short- and long-term impacts of complete ACL ruptures, including long-term muscle dysfunction and joint arthritis. Risk factors and possible causes of the higher noncontact ACL injury rates in female athletes compared with male athletes are then discussed in depth. Detailed attention is devoted to neuromuscular training programs and their effectiveness in reducing noncontact ACL injury rates in female athletes, as well as to sports-specific ACL injury prevention and conditioning programs of proven value. Rehabilitation programs after ACL injury and reconstruction that reduce the risk of a future injury are explored, and the concluding section looks at worldwide implementation of neuromuscular ACL injury prevention training and future research directions. The book will be of value to orthopedic surgeons, physical therapists, athletic trainers, sports medicine primary care physicians, and strength and conditioning specialists.

Download or read book ACL Injuries in the Female Athlete written by Frank R. Noyes and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-01-04 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nearly a million anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries occur each year worldwide, causing long-term problems in the knee joint. This textbook examines the short- and long-term impacts of ACL injuries on the basis of hundreds of published studies. Risk factors for such injuries are explored using data from hypothesis-driven investigations, and possible causes of the higher risk of noncontact ACL injuries in female athletes are analyzed. Neuromuscular training programs shown to reduce the rate of these injuries in female athletes are described in step-by-step detail with the aid of numerous color photographs and video demonstrations. In addition, detailed descriptions are provided for rehabilitation programs to be used after ACL reconstruction in order to reduce the risk of a future injury. The book will be of value to orthopedic surgeons, physical therapists, athletic trainers, sports medicine primary care physicians, and strength and conditioning specialists.

Download or read book On the Modification of Risk Factors for Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injuries in Female Athletes Through Visual Feedback written by Scott H. Bonnette and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book One Anterior Cruciate Ligament injury is enough written by Anne Fältström and published by Linköping University Electronic Press. This book was released on 2016-08-31 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Background: Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury is a severe and common injury, and females have 2-4 times higher injury risk compared to men. Return to sport (RTS) is a common goal after an ACL reconstruction (ACLR), but only about two thirds of patients RTS. Young patients who RTS may have a 30-40 times increased risk of sustaining an additional ACL injury to the ipsi- or contralateral knee compared with an uninjured person. Aims: The overall aim of this thesis was to increase the knowledge about female football players with ACLR, and patients with bilateral ACL injuries, and to identify predictors for additional ipsi- and/or contralateral ACLR. Methods: This thesis comprises four studies. Study I and II were cross-sectional, including females who sustained a primary ACL rupture while playing football and underwent ACLR 6–36 months prior to study inclusion. In study I, 182 females were included at a median of 18 months (IQR 13) after ACLR. All players completed a battery of questionnaires. Ninety-four players (52%) returned to football and were playing at the time of completing the questionnaires, and 88 (48%) had not returned. In study II, 77 of the 94 active female football players (from study I) with an ACLR and 77 kneehealthy female football players were included. A battery of tests was used to assess postural control (the Star excursion balance test) and hop performance (the one-leg hop for distance, the five jump test and the side hop). Movement asymmetries in the lower limbs and trunk were assessed with the drop vertical jump and the tuck jump using two-dimensional analyses. Study III, was a cohort study including all patients with a primary ACLR (n=22,429) registered in the Swedish national ACL register between January 2005 and February 2013. Data extracted from the register to identify predictors for additional ACLR were: patient age at primary ACLR, sex, activity performed at the time of ACL injury, primary injury to the right- or left knee, time between injury and primary ACLR, presence of any concomitant injuries, graft type, Knee injury and Osteoarthritis Outcome Score and Euroqol Index Five Dimensions measured pre-operatively. Study IV was cross-sectional. In this study, patient-reported knee function, quality of life and activity level in 66 patients with bilateral ACL injuries was investigated and outcomes were compared with 182 patients with unilateral ACLR. Results: Factors associated with returning to football in females were; short time between injury and ACLR (0–3 months, OR 5.6; 3–12 months OR 4.7 vs. reference group >12 months) and high motivation (study I). In all functional tests, the reconstructed and uninvolved limbs did not differ, and players with ACLR and controls differed only minimally. Nine to 49% of the players with ACLR and controls had side-to-side differences and movement asymmetries and only one fifth had results that met the recommended guidelines for successful outcome on all the different tests (study II). Main predictors for revision and contralateral ACLR were younger age (fourfold increased rate for <16 vs. >35-year-old patients), having ACLR early after the primary injury (two to threefold increased rate for ACLR within 3 months vs. >12 months), and incurring the primary injury while playing football (study III). Patients with bilateral ACL injuries reported poorer knee function and quality of life compared to those who had undergone unilateral ACLR. They had a high activity level before their first and second ACL injuries but an impaired activity level at follow-up after their second injury (study IV). Conclusions: Female football players who returned to football after an ACLR had high motivation and had undergone ACLR within one year after injury. Players with ACLR had similar functional performance to healthy controls. Movement asymmetries, which in previous studies have been associated with increased risk for primary and secondary ACL injury, occurred to a high degree in both groups. The rate of additional ACLR seemed to be increased in a selected group of young patients who desire to return to strenuous sports like football quickly after primary ACLR. Sustaining a contralateral ACL injury led to impaired knee function and activity level.

Download or read book Prevalence of Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injury Prevention Programs in High School Sports written by Melissa A. Erwin and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injury Incidence Across Sex Sport and Level written by and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract : Well controlled Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) injury prevention neuromuscular training reduces the risk of ACL injury by 50%, but despite the efficacy of these programs, ACL injury rates have not decreased. This lack of decrease in injury incidence may be due in part to limited knowledge on who is most at risk for sustaining an ACL injury, and there is no formal clinical tool available to estimate the personalized or group risk of ACL injury. The purpose of this study was to better understand what groups of athletes are most at risk of sustaining a primary ACL injury, as the first step in mitigating risk and decreasing the substantial public health and financial burden of ACL injuries. To accomplish this goal, we conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis using the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) guidelines and through specific inclusion/exclusion criteria to analyze specific subgroupings of athletes. 7,038 studies were identified in the initial database search and 80 studies were included in the final subgroup meta-analysis. Analyses revealed that female athletes had a greater risk of ACL injury compared to male athletes. However, this project pointed out gaps in the current epidemiological prevalence of ACL injuries and the extra precaution people should take about the overgeneralization of sex and sport types for risk assessment. For example, it is well known that for sex comparable sports, females are at greater risk for ACL injury compared to males - however, the absolute risk level for various female sports is substantially low (e.g., female high school volleyball and female college lacrosse). In addition, female professional sports have overall higher ACL injury rates and prevention programs appear less effective for this group warranting more rigorous and targeted prevention efforts. Future studies should also utilize rigorous epidemiological approaches to assess injury rates as there are many sports, sex, and levels that do not have sufficient data to determine absolute prevalence or risk level. When more information is discovered, a personalized risk assessment tool can then be developed to then determine the most at-risk populations to allocate resources and prevention efforts to reduce the number of ACL injuries.

Download or read book Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injuries in the Female Athlete written by Karen Ocwieja and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Female athletes have become the poster children for anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries in recent years. This has lead to increased attention from research. There is now a vast amount of articles about ACL injuries and the library keeps growing. The purpose of this thesis is to review the current literature on ACL injury related to etiology, pathology and prevention. Through my research an additional topic arose. This is highlighted in a further section, psychosocial factors. Original research was conducted to gain a preliminary look at how playing multiple sports at one time, or specializing in one sport in high school, affects injury rates and what was the greatest influence on the decision to play club sports. The results from the literature review revealed that valgus stress at the knee and the imbalance between the force couple of the hamstrings and quadriceps are the most responsive to correction through training. The research supports that by correcting those two etiological risk factors female athletes can reduce their risk for ACL injury. Additional research is needed to look at how psychosocial factors [are] related to ACL injuries"--Abstract.

Download or read book Neuromuscular Training Modalities as a Preventive for Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injuries in Female Athletes written by Sara Lynn Terrell and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Neuromuscular Imbalances in Female Athletes written by Jennifer Lynn Miller and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Effectiveness of Neuromuscular Training on a Modifiable Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injury Risk Factor written by Conrad M. Gabler and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injury Mechanisms in Female Athletes written by Carmen E. Quatman and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) is one of the most commonly injured ligaments of the knee, with female athletes sustaining ACL injuries at a 2-8 fold greater rate compared to male athletes. An ACL injury can be devastating and significantly increases the athlete's risk for osteoarthritis long term. While many advances have been made in terms of surgical and rehabilitation treatments for ACL injured patients, long term outcome studies show that these patients are at a high risk for developing knee osteoarthritis 10-15 years after ACL injury, regardless of the treatment. Currently, the mechanism of non-contact ACL injury is not well understood. In order to design successful ACL injury prevention programs and address the high rates of ACL injuries in the female athlete population, a better understanding of the non-contact ACL injury mechanism must be established. Utilizing a new interdisciplinary, multi-faceted approach to study ACL loading and injury mechanisms in female athletes, we explored the mechanical responses of the ACL to loads using computer mathematical modeling and three-dimensional motion analysis techniques. The computer model developed for this project is a valuable tool that can be readily manipulated to examine knee joint motions and loads and may be utilized as a tool to predict which athletes are at high risk of ACL injury. Prevention of even a portion of these ACL injuries would allow many athletes to receive the health benefits of sports participation and avoid the long term sequelae of disability associated with knee osteoarthritis.

Download or read book Neuromechanical Analysis of Anterior Cruciate Ligament Risk Factors in Female Collegiate Soccer Athletes written by Nelson Cortes and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Proposed Risk Factors for ACL Injuries in Female Athletes and Awareness of Coaches at DII and the High School Level written by Andrew C. Traber and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Primary Prevention of Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injuries Among Collegiate Women s Soccer Players written by Celeste Dix and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Participation in soccer among female athletes has increased exponentially over the last three decades, and anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury rates have also increased at an alarming rate. Many of these ACL injuries occur without contact from another player and may be preventable. Non-contact ACL injuries may be the result of aberrant biomechanics and poor neuromuscular control of the trunk and lower extremities. Exercise-based injury prevention programs (IPPs) that emphasize neuromuscular control were created to mitigate risk. Participation in an IPP can significantly reduce the rate of non-contact ACL injuries, particularly in women. We do not know, however, how these IPPs reduce ACL injuries. In addition, although there is a preponderance of evidence that IPPs are effective in reducing ACL injuries, there has been low implementation of them among athletes and coaches.

Download or read book Incidence and Prevention of Injury of the Anterior Cruciate Ligament in Females written by Arielle E. Gillie and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to the American College of Sports Medicine, women are two to eight times more likely to sustain an anterior cruciate ligament injury than men at the same level of performance. This high incidence of women with an ACL injury is thought to be due to a number of gender differences. This study examines the research that has been conducted to determine the reason for the disproportionate incidence of anterior cruciate ligament in female population. The study encompasses anatomical structure of the knee joint, structural differences in the male and female knee, hormonal influences, biomechanical influences, neuromuscular influences, and strategies for prevention. If intrinsic and extrinsic risk factors for women can be determined and altered, then steps can be taken to reduce the risk of an anterior cruciate ligament injury in women.