Women’s basketball players – and female athletes across high‐intensity, pivoting sports – are two to eight times more likely ...

Objective To identify, critique and synthesise the research findings that evaluate the use of resistance training (RT) programmes on return to sport outcome measures for people following ACL repair ...

Previous research suggests that although fatigue accumulates during competitions and at season’s end, anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries do not significantly increase, with peripheral ...

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the association between the height of the medial longitudinal arch of the foot and non-contact injuries of the anterior cruciate ligament. METHODS: One hundred and five patients ...

The ACL prevents excessive forward movement of the tibia and the PCL prevents excessive backward movement of ... including landing mechanics, anatomy of the knee joint, inherent looseness of tissues.

Four important ligaments help stabilize the joint: the anterior collateral ligament (ACL) the posterior collateral ligament (PCL), which intersects with the ACL the lateral collateral ligament at the ...

The study comprised 200 patients with MRI-confirmed anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) and posterior cruciate ligament (PCL) tears, who subsequently underwent arthroscopy for both diagnostic and ...

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) demonstrated an acute tear of the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) (Figure 1) with possible meniscocapsular separation of the medial meniscus (Figures 2,3).

Objectives To examine sex differences in psychological readiness to return to sport following anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction as well as to determine whether males and females ...

Background: Posterior cruciate ligament (PCL) tibial avulsion fractures are relatively ... Most cases require surgical intervention to restore the fragment’s normal anatomy, the ligament’s tension, ...