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1. The Effects of Level of Competition, Sport, and Sex on the Incidence of First-Time Noncontact Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injury.

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Beynnon, Bruce D., Vacek, Pamela M., Newell, Maira K., Tourville, Timothy W., Smith, Helen C., Shultz, Sandra J., Slauterbeck, James R., and Johnson, Robert J.

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SPORTS injuries risk factors, ANTERIOR cruciate ligament injuries, BASKETBALL, COLLEGE athletes, CONFIDENCE intervals, FOOTBALL, GOODNESS-of-fit tests, HIGH school athletes, HOCKEY, RESEARCH methodology, POISSON distribution, RACKET games, REGRESSION analysis, RESEARCH funding, RUGBY football, SEX distribution, SOCCER, VOLLEYBALL, RELATIVE medical risk, TEAM sports, DISEASE incidence, EXERCISE intensity, INJURY risk factors
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The article discusses research which investigated how competition level, type of sport, and athlete's sex influence first-time noncontact anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury incidence. Topics addressed include the prevalence of ACL injuries in young athletes in the U.S., the use of National Collegiate Athletic Association Injury Surveillance System database as reference in assessing injury incidence rates, and the injury rate associated with soccer, basketball, and lacrosse.

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2014
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2. Application of a Clinic-Based Algorithm as a Tool to Identify Female Athletes at Risk for Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injury: A Prospective Cohort Study With a Nested, Matched Case-Control Analysis.

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Goetschius, John, Smith, Helen C., Vacek, Pamela M., Holterman, Leigh Ann, Shultz, Sandra J., Tourville, Timothy W., Slauterbeck, James, Johnson, Robert J., and Beynnon, Bruce D.

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*KNEE physiology, *QUADRICEPS muscle physiology, *HAMSTRING muscle physiology, *ANTERIOR cruciate ligament injuries, *TIBIA, *ALGORITHMS, *ANTHROPOMETRY, *COLLEGE athletes, *CONFIDENCE intervals, *EPIDEMIOLOGY, *FORECASTING, *HIGH school athletes, *RANGE of motion of joints, *JUMPING, *LONGITUDINAL method, *MUSCLE strength testing, *RESEARCH funding, *STATISTICS, *VIDEO recording, *WOMEN'S health, *WOMEN athletes, *LOGISTIC regression analysis, *DATA analysis, *SECONDARY analysis, *ABDUCTION (Kinesiology), *INTER-observer reliability, *CASE-control method, *DESCRIPTIVE statistics, *ANATOMY, *INJURY risk factors, RESEARCH evaluation
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The article reports a study which was conducted to determine whether high knee abduction moment (pKAM) is associated with anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury in female athletes. A clinic-based algorithm developed by Myer and colleagues was used in the study. The results show that the pKAM was not associated with noncontact ACL injury in injured athletes.

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2012
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3. A Prospective Evaluation of the Landing Error Scoring System (LESS) as a Screening Tool for Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injury Risk.

Author

Smith, Helen C., Johnson, Robert J., Shultz, Sandra J., Tourville, Timothy, Holterman, Leigh Ann, Slauterbeck, James, Vacek, Pamela M., and Beynnon, Bruce D.

Subjects
*ANTERIOR cruciate ligament injuries, *FUNCTIONAL assessment, *COLLEGE athletes, *CONFIDENCE intervals, *EPIDEMIOLOGY, *HIGH school athletes, *JUMPING, *LONGITUDINAL method, *RESEARCH methodology, *RESEARCH funding, *SCALES (Weighing instruments), *STATISTICS, *VIDEO recording, *LOGISTIC regression analysis, *DATA analysis, *INTER-observer reliability, *CASE-control method, *RESEARCH methodology evaluation, *DATA analysis software, *DESCRIPTIVE statistics, *INJURY risk factors, RESEARCH evaluation
Abstract

Background: Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries are immediately disabling, costly, take a significant amount of time to rehabilitate, and are associated with an increased risk of developing posttraumatic osteoarthritis of the knee. Specific multiplanar movement patterns of the lower extremity, such as those associated with the drop vertical jump (DVJ) test, have been shown to be associated with an increased risk of suffering noncontact ACL injuries. The Landing Error Scoring System (LESS) has been developed as a tool that can be applied to identify individuals who display at-risk movement patterns during the DVJ.Hypothesis: An increase in LESS score is associated with an increased risk of noncontact ACL injury.Study Design: Case-control study; Level of evidence, 3.Methods: Over a 3-year interval, 5047 high school and college participants performed preseason DVJ tests that were recorded using commercial video cameras. All participants were followed for ACL injury during their sports season, and video data from injured participants and matched controls were then assessed with the LESS. Conditional logistic regression analysis was used to examine the association between LESS score and ACL injury risk in all participants as well as subgroups of female, male, high school, and college participants.Results: There was no relationship between the risk of suffering ACL injury and LESS score whether measured as a continuous or a categorical variable. This was the case for all participants combined (odds ratio, 1.04 per unit increase in LESS score; 95% confidence interval, 0.80-1.35) as well as within each subgroup (odds ratio range, 0.99-1.14).Conclusion: The LESS did not predict ACL injury in our cohort of high school and college athletes. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

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2012
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