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!

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