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Creator:: Pollard, Anne E.
Abstract:: Anterior cruciate ligament injuries are common in a wide variety of sports and most frequently occur during activities requiring rapid deceleration such as landing and cutting. Deceleration of the body's center of mass during movement results primarily from eccentric muscle contraction. This type of contraction serves to absorb energy from...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Absorption during Single-leg Jump-Cuts. Abstract approved: Marc F. Norcross Anterior cruciate ligament

Creator:: Chang, Eun Wook
Abstract:: A functional test battery (FTB), which combines the use of subjective and objective functional measures, has been proposed as a potential means to distinguish anterior cruciate ligament reconstructed (ACLR) patients' that can more safely participate in activity from those at greater risk. However, no previous study has directly assessed whether...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury occurs with high frequency in athletic populations with more than

Creator:: Perrier, Erica Taylor
Abstract:: Female athletes exhibit three- to six-fold greater incidence of noncontact anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury relative to their male counterparts. The increased risk appears to stem from interactions between several risk factors, that can roughly be categorized as anatomic, biomechanical, hormonal, and neuromuscular. Neuromuscular risk factors have recently gained a...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: . Wojtys, EM and Huston, LJ. Longitudinal effects of anterior cruciate ligament injury and patellar

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