Prevention of anterior cruciate ligament injuries in sports. Part I: systematic review of risk factors in male athletes
Alentorn-Geli E, Mendiguchía J, Samuelsson K, Musahl V, Karlsson J, Cugat R, Myer GD
Knee surgery, sports traumatology, arthroscopy : official journal of the ESSKA · 59 citations
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How it was studied
- Design
- Systematic review (indexed by PubMed)
- Studied in
- People
- Main outcome
- Clinical events such as disease or death
Who paid for it
- Funding
- Funding not disclosed
Publication
- Published
- 2013-10-24 · Knee Surg Sports Traumatol Arthrosc · vol. 22 · issue 1 · pp. 3–15
- Publisher
- Springer Science+Business Media
- Cited
- 107 citations · more than 89% of similar papers · 2.3× the field average
- References
- 88 works
- Access
- Paywalled
- Research areas
- Knee injuries and reconstruction techniques · Sports injuries and prevention · Lower Extremity Biomechanics and Pathologies
- Keywords
- Athletes, Anterior cruciate ligament, Medicine, ACL injury, Physical therapy, Risk factor, Risk assessment, Surgery, Internal medicine
- MeSH
- anterior cruciate ligament, tibia, knee joint, humans, joint instability, athletic injuries, knee injuries, risk factors, male, athletes, biomechanical phenomena, anterior cruciate ligament injuries
7 authors
From ES, SE, US
- Eduard Alentorn‐Geli · correspondingUniversitat Autònoma de Barcelona; Universitat Pompeu Fabra; Parc de Salut
- Jurdan Mendiguchía
- Kristian SamuelssonSahlgrenska University Hospital
- Volker MusahlUniversity of Pittsburgh Medical Center
- J. KarlssonSahlgrenska University Hospital
- Ramón CugatFC Barcelona
Abstract
Purpose
The purpose of this study was to report a comprehensive literature review on the risk factors for anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries in male athletes.
Methods
All abstracts were read and articles of potential interest were reviewed in detail to determine on inclusion status for systematic review. Information regarding risk factors for ACL injuries in male athletes was extracted from all included studies in systematic fashion and classified as environmental, anatomical, hormonal, neuromuscular, or biomechanical. Data extraction involved general characteristics of the included studies (type of study, characteristics of the sample, type of sport), methodological aspects (for quality assessment), and the principal results for each type of risk factor.
Results
The principal findings of this systematic review related to the risk factors for ACL injury in male athletes are: (1) most of the evidence is related to environmental and anatomical risk factors; (2) dry weather conditions may increase the risk of non-contact ACL injuries in male athletes; (3) artificial turf may increase the risk of non-contact ACL injuries in male athletes; (4) higher posterior tibial slope of the lateral tibial plateau may increase the risk of non-contact ACL injuries in male athletes.
Conclusion
Anterior cruciate ligament injury in male athletes likely has a multi-factorial aetiology. There is a lack of evidence regarding neuromuscular and biomechanical risk factors for ACL injury in male athletes. Future research in male populations is warranted to provide adequate prevention strategies aimed to decrease the risk of this serious injury in these populations.
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