Wednesday, March 31, 2010

ACL INJURIES PART 5

LOWER EXTREMITY ALIGNMENT

ANKLE POSITION

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KNEE POSITION

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Tuesday, March 23, 2010

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

Wednesday, March 17, 2010

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!!!!

Monday, March 8, 2010

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!