ACL INJURIES PART 5

LOWER EXTREMITY ALIGNMENT

ANKLE POSITION

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KNEE POSITION

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ACL INJURIES PART 4

CAPITAL SPORTS INJURY CENTER ACL INJURY PREVENTION PROGRAM

• Has your child been properly screened prior to sports participation?
• Is your child’s body ready for the rigors of sports play?
• Is there someone who is trained to handle injuries at every game and every practice?

PART I: ASSESSMENT

Posture, Movement Screen, and Gait Analysis

PART II: PREPARATION

Warm-up
Dynamic Stretching

PART III: STRENGTH AND POWER

Strength - Squat technique and core strength
Power - Jump technique and exercises

PART IV: RUNNING TECHNIQUE AND AGILITY

Forward, Backward and Side to Side Movement


PART V: COOL DOWN

ACL INJURIES PART 3

MECHANISMS OF INJURY

Non-contact (70%)

• Pivot: Planting and cutting
• Landing from jump with knee straight.

Contact - 30%

• Hit from behind
• Hit from the side

What the Athlete Feels When Injury Occurs

• What athlete feels is single, double or triple pop
• Knee twists and subluxates - goes in and out of the groove
• Instantaneous pain!
• Swelling!
• Inability to move knee!
• OUCH!!!!

ACL INJURIES PART 1

"You can prevent ACL injury. If you have a daughter who is playing basketball, soccer, handball..., then it is crazy if her team isn’t undertaking one of the evidence based warm-ups targeting lower limb injury prevention…”  British Journal of Sports Medicine October 2008 42(10):483-484.



Cost of ACL Injuries to Society

• 200,000 injuries per year

• 60,000 – 75,000 surgeries per year

• Cost: $1.7 billion/year spent

• Greatest risk in high school and college (ages 15 – 25)

• More #’s of boys, but…………….

• More common (2 – 8 times) in female athletes

o 1/100 in high school

o 1/10 in college

Cost of ACL Injury to the Athlete

• Surgery: 6 – 36 months of rehab

• 77% have sports disability within 5 years

• 44% have activities of daily living disability within year

• Arthritis risk: > 90% within 20 years whether they have surgery or not!

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CONCUSSIONS PART 8

CONCUSSION LINKS

NFL: Dodging the Concussion Issue

Concussion IMPACT

Mouthguards and Concussion

Sports Legacy

Summary and Agreement Statement of the Third International Conference on Concussion 2008

Donating His Brain - Ted Johnson, Linebacker

Inter-Association Task Force for Appropriate Care of the Spine-Injured Athlete

Can Contact Sports Lower Your Intelligence?

Making Headway

Sports Imperative: Protecting Your Brain