What 120+ ACL Studies Reveal About Re-Injury Risk & Confidence

Anyway, so did you know, we're going to start off with a little factlets about intracruciate ligament injuries.

So did you know that recent research has found that early quadriceps strength as measured as a percentage of the contralateral quadriceps strength measured at three months post ACL reconstruction was predictive of a contralateral ACL injury at 36 months? Wow.

That's

amazing.

And that

those athletes, the mean age was 15.1 years, who had a limb symmetry index less than 80%, were 4.4 times more likely to sustain a contralateral ACL injury, but less likely to sustain an ipsilateral ACL injury.

Young athletes post-ACL reconstruction showed higher coordination variability compared to controls with athletes who sustained two ACL injuries with higher coordination variability than those with a single ACL injury.

I would say I see that

in my clinic.

That's a very interesting statement.

Yeah, for sure.

And lastly, neuromuscular training in 13-year-old female soccer players, a highly vulnerable population.

decreased the knee abduction moment during a bilateral landing test, but only the group with hip feedback reduced the knee abduction moment during an unanticipated cutting maneuver.

So while they were thinking about it, doing that bilateral landing task, they did pretty well.

But when they put them out there with some unanticipated cutting task, only those with the hip biofeedback performed well.

And last time I checked, that's how you play soccer.

Exactly.

That's tricky.

I've watched a lot of soccer in my day.