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 Keeping Athletes on the Field written by Amelia J.H. Arundale and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In its three aims this dissertation explored the outcomes of a primary prevention program, rehabilitation and return to sport after ACL reconstruction, and a secondary ACL injury prevention program. The FIFA11+ is a primary prevention program that reduces knee injuries in men’s collegiate soccer, however has not been examined in women’s collegiate soccer and it remains unknown if the program is effective in changing movement patterns associated with ACL injuries. In its first aim this dissertation established smallest detectable change and minimal important difference values for motion analysis of a drop jump. Then using these values to provide clinical context, this study found that although effective in reducing non-contact lower extremity injuries, the FIFA11+ did not reduce knee injuries or change biomechanical risk factors. In the second aim this dissertation explored if professional male athletes in Major League Soccer (MLS) after ACL reconstruction were at an increased risk for injuries, beyond their known increased risk for a new knee injury, and how returning to play after ACL reconstruction affected their career length. This study found that although not at an increased risk for lower extremity injury, MLS athletes had shorter careers compared to age matched controls. Seemingly these athletes made a return to sport but not a return to their preinjury level of performance. In its third aim this study explored the outcomes of the Anterior Cruciate Ligament-Specialized Post-Operative Return to Sports (ACL-SPORTS) program, a secondary prevention program designed to help bridge the gap between physical therapy discharge and return to sport. This study found that both men and women had increases in objective and self-reported outcome measures over the course of the training program, with the exception of quadriceps strength limb symmetry. Men had an increase in quadriceps strength limb symmetry with the program, where women’s strength symmetry remained the same. Further examination of the men found that 95% returned to their preinjury level of sport and only one had a second ACL injury (incidence 2.5%) in the two years following ACL reconstruction.

Download or read book Sports Injuries written by Mahmut Nedim Doral and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2015-06-29 with total page 3295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sports Injuries: Prevention, Diagnosis, Treatment and Rehabilitation covers the whole field of sports injuries and is an up-to-date guide for the diagnosis and treatment of the full range of sports injuries. The work pays detailed attention to biomechanics and injury prevention, examines the emerging treatment role of current strategies and evaluates sports injuries of each part of musculoskeletal system. In addition, pediatric sports injuries, extreme sports injuries, the role of physiotherapy, and future developments are extensively discussed. All those who are involved in the care of patients with sports injuries will find this textbook to be an invaluable, comprehensive, and up-to-date reference.

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 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 Are College Female Soccer Players at a Decreased Risk for Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injuries with a Proprioceptive Training Program for Pre season and In season Training written by Luke Carey and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Content: Since Title IX, female participation in sports has risen drastically. Along with the number of female participants there has been an increase in injuries as well. In particular, soccer has been a growing popular sport with rising number of participants and skill levels. One particular problem has been anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries with females having a much more higher incidence than males. There are several areas of interest regarding this issue. One area is prevention of ACL injuries from proprioceptive training programs. Methods: The topic of ACL injuries and proprioception training for prevention was searched in evidence based medicine articles using Pubmed. Results: Results from the studies indicated that there are no conclusive training programs at this time, while there are multiple studies stating reduction in ACL injuries with no outlined programs except for the PEP Program, Gilchrist et al. Conclusion: Further research should be focused on developing an effective evidence based prevention program and the optimal training durations for the program to achieve a decreased in the incidence of ACL injuries.

Download or read book Understanding and Preventing Noncontact ACL Injuries written by American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine and published by Human Kinetics Publishers. This book was released on 2007 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grade level: 11, 12, i, s, t.

Download or read book ACL Injuries in Female Athletes written by Robin West and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2018-12-07 with total page 400 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 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 Women s Soccer Coaches written by Kristoffer J. Friend and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: This study explored the usage of Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) injury prevention programs by women's soccer coaches across the United States. The knowledge and attitudes towards these injury prevention programs was surveyed in order to understand why every coach has not implemented an ACL injury prevention program. ACL injuries plague female soccer athletes and every year billions of dollars are spent on their treatment and care. Researchers have developed programs that address the factors predisposing female athletes to knee injuries and these programs have been proven to reduce injury rates. It is unknown how prevalent these ACL injury prevention programs are being used. In an attempt to find a demographic of coaches to target for education on ACL injury prevention, it was found through surveying coaches across the United States that the majority of coaches needed further education rather than a target demographic.

Download or read book Prevention of Noncontact ACL Injuries written by Letha Y. Griffin and published by Academy. This book was released on 2001 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important work will help you understand: the epidemiology of noncontact ACL injuries; risk factors for injuries; the "at-risk" athlete; neuromuscular prevention programs; their influence on injury rates. Supported by the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine, the National Athletic Trainers Association Research and Education Foundation, the National Collegiate Athletic Association, and the Orthopaedic Research and Education Foundation.

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 Understanding and Preventing Noncontact ACL Injuries written by and published by Human Kinetics. This book was released on with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grade level: 11, 12, i, s, t.

Download or read book The Effects of a Novel Core Stability Training Program on Neuromuscular Anterior Cruciate Ligament Risk Factors in Female Collegiate Soccer Players written by Alexis Camacho and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: Anterior cruciate ligaments injuries make up nearly half of all lower extremity injuries in sports. Female athletes, particularly those involved in soccer, are at even higher risk of injury than their male counterparts due to neuromuscular, physiological, and anatomical risk factor differences. Poor neuromuscular control of the core can cause poor mechanics of the lower extremity leading to an increased risk of ACL injury. Biomechanical variables such as vertical ground reaction force, knee abduction moments, and knee flexion during a side-cut are key risk factors that can be altered by a core stability training intervention. A 3-Dimensional analysis of these variables during a 90° side-cut task was conducted across three time points (pre, mid, post-training program). Subjects (n = 9) were randomly assigned to either the control (n = 4) or intervention (n = 5) group. Plank tests were also conducted at each testing session to assess core stability. The intervention group participated in three sessions a week for a duration of 8 weeks of core stability training. No significant differences were seen in peak knee flexion, peak abduction moment, vertical ground reaction force, and plank times (p = 0.876, p = 0.369, p = 0.748, p = 0.057, respectively). On a case-by-case basis, the intervention group had minor biomechanical improvements similar to previous research, but a limited sample size may not be a true reflection of the positive effects the intervention could have had with a larger sample size.

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 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 Differential Biomechanical Effects of an ACL Injury Prevention Program in Women s Basketball and Soccer Players written by Jeffrey Bruce Taylor and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury prevention programs are considerably less successful in women's basketball than women's soccer. Despite different sport-specific demands (e.g. more jumping and frontal plane movements in basketball), ACL injury prevention programs have been uniformly administered in both sports and predominantly emphasize improving high-risk biomechanics during sagittal plane tasks. As such, injury prevention programs may not provide the appropriate stimulus to reduce ACL injury risk during the high-risk demands associated with women's basketball. Thus, the purpose of this study was to 1) compare the fundamental movement profiles in adolescent female basketball and soccer players during a variety of jump landing tasks, 2) assess whether an established ACL injury prevention program affects lower extremity biomechanics during sagittal vs. frontal plane and double- vs. single-leg landings, and 3) analyze the extent to which female basketball and soccer players respond differently to a uniform ACL injury prevention program. A repeated measures experimental design was used in this study. Middle- and high-school aged female basketball and soccer teams were cluster-randomized into intervention (basketball, n=21; soccer, n=27) and control (basketball, n=21; soccer, n=28) groups. Three-dimensional biomechanical analysis was performed during double- and single-leg sagittal and frontal plane tasks before and after the completion of an established 6-week ACL injury prevention program. Biomechanical variables of interest were those that have been theorized to influence ACL injury risk, including hip flexion, adduction, internal rotation, and knee flexion, abduction, internal rotation and external rotation peak angles, excursions, and peak normalized external joint moments. At baseline, basketball players exhibited relatively stiff landings, with less hip and/or knee excursion than soccer players. Sport differences were especially apparent as jump landing tasks increased in difficulty, with the single-leg, frontal plane jump landing eliciting the most differences. During this task, basketball players landed with decreased hip adduction angles (p.001), decreased hip flexion (p=.03), and knee flexion (p=.01) excursions, and increased hip internal rotation (p=.003) and greater relative knee external rotation (p=.001) excursions. Additionally, forces differed between sports during the single-leg frontal plane jump landing, with basketball players showing increased knee abduction (p=.003) and decreased hip adduction (p=.001) and knee external rotation (p.001) moments. Across sports, no significant biomechanical changes were identified after the training program in any of the sagittal or frontal plane jump landing tasks (p.05). However, limited evidence suggested that biomechanical changes were not the same across all tasks, as participants in the intervention group showed relative decreases in knee abduction moments during the double-leg sagittal plane landing compared to the single-leg sagittal plane landing (p=.005). Additionally, women's basketball and soccer players largely exhibited similar biomechanical adaptations after training. No significant differences in biomechanical adaptations were identified between sports during the drop vertical jump, double-leg sagittal plane, or double- and single-leg frontal plane tasks (p.05). During the single-leg sagittal plane jump landing task, basketball players in the intervention group exhibited increased peak knee abduction angles (p=.004) and excursions (p=.003) after training compared to the basketball control group (p=.01) and soccer intervention group (p=.01). These results indicate that the discrepancy in the success of ACL injury prevention programs in basketball and soccer players may not be a function of sport-specific responses to training. Instead, basketball players appear to utilize distinct fundamental movement strategies during a variety of jump landing tasks compared to soccer, and therefore, current prevention programs may not successfully address these sport-specific movement differences. Specifically, basketball players land in potentially higher-risk positions, with decreased levels of hip and knee flexion excursion, and elements of dynamic lower extremity valgus, which are especially prevalent during high level basketball-specific tasks, including jump landings on a single-leg and in the frontal plane. However, 6-weeks of offseason training using a warm-up based ACL injury prevention program does not appear to provide adequate volume or intensity to modify the high-risk movement patterns used during these tasks. Thus, to improve the success of future programs in the basketball population, exercise prescription may need to incorporate higher levels of more intense technique training that emphasizes soft landings during basketball-specific frontal plane and single-leg jumping activities."--Abstract from author supplied metadata.