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Preventing knee injuries in adolescent female football players – design of a cluster randomized controlled trial [NCT00894595]

BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, 2009
Background Knee injuries in football are common regardless of age, gender or playing level, but adolescent females seem to have the highest risk. The consequences after severe knee injury, for example anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury, are well ...
Waldén Markus, Hägglund Martin, Atroshi Isam   +2 more
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Knee injury and Osteoarthritis Outcome Score (KOOS) – validation and comparison to the WOMAC in total knee replacement [PDF]

, 2003
Background The Knee injury and Osteoarthritis Outcome Score (KOOS) is an extension of the Western Ontario and McMaster Universities Osteoarthrtis Index (WOMAC), the most commonly used outcome instrument for assessment of patient-relevant treatment ...
Ewa EwaM Roos, Sören Toksvig-Larsen, Roos, Ewa M   +2 more
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Outside-In-Outside Repair Technique for Anterior Horn and Body Meniscal Tear: A Modified Technique

Arthroscopy Techniques
Meniscus is an important structure within the knee to maintain stability and load gravity distribution. Compared with meniscectomy, timely meniscal repair can reduce the risk of knee regression and laxity.
Guorui Cao, M.D., Xiaotan Shi, M.M., Xiao Wang, M.M., Lanbo Yang, M.D., Honglue Tan, M.D.   +4 more
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Clinical relevance of MRI knee abnormalities in Australian rules football players: a longitudinal study

BMJ Open Sport & Exercise Medicine, 2021
Background/Aim The clinical relevance of MRI knee abnormalities in athletes is unclear. This study aimed to determine the prevalence of MRI knee abnormalities in Australian Rules Football (ARF) players and describe their associations with pain, function,
Tania Winzenberg, Graeme Jones, Xingzhong Jin, David Humphries, Hussain Khan, Jean-Pierre Pelletier, Johanne Martel-Pelletier, Dawn Aitken, François Abram, Yi Chao Foong, Saliu Balogun, Laura Laslett, Nathan Pitchford   +12 more
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Influence of minimalist footwear on knee and ankle loads during the squash lunge [PDF]

, 2015
Squash is associated with a high incidence of knee and ankle joint injuries. The aim of this work was to examine the effects of squash specific, running shoes and minimalist footwear on knee and ankle loads during the lunge movement in squash players ...
Bottoms, Lindsay, Mahmood, Khizar, Sinclair, Jonathan Kenneth, Taylor, Paul John   +3 more
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Association between body roundness index and frailty in older Americans: a cross-sectional study of NHANES 2007–2018

Frontiers in Nutrition
This study used NHANES data from 2007 to 2018 to examine the relationship between frailty and the Body Roundness Index (BRI) in U.S. people 60 years of age and older. BRI = 364.2–365.5 × sqrt [1–(wc/2π)2/(Height/2)2].
Jie Xu, Min Sun, Meng Chen, Zan Lin, Yong Hu, Xiaobing Luo   +5 more
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Association of Obesity, Parity, and History of Knee Injury with Knee Osteoarthritis in Female

Althea Medical Journal, 2015
Background: Osteoarthritis is the most joint disorder among elderly. There are a lot of risk factors of knee osteoarthritis. Obesity and high frequent of parity can increase the load on knee joint.
Ade Triyadi, Riardi Pramudiyo, Januarsih Iwan A. R.   +2 more
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Study of Imaging Pattern in Bone Marrow Oedema in MRI in Recent Knee Injuries and its Correlation with Type of Knee Injury [PDF]

Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, 2016
Introduction: The knee is a major weight bearing joint that provides mobility and stability during physical activity as well as balance while standing.
Kulamani Sahoo, Ashish Garg, Pramod Saha, Jainesh Valjibhai Dodia, Vinay Rajappa Raj, Shweta Jagadish Bhairagond   +5 more
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Knee pain [PDF]

, 2006
JC is a 13 year old boy who presented with a 3 week history of anterior right knee pain. Pain is activity related and brought on whenever JC plays football or basketball. He never needed to stop from any particular activity because of the pain.
Formosa, Aaron
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Local dynamic stability of the lower-limb as a means of post-hoc injury classification.

PLoS ONE, 2021
Since most sporting injuries occur at the lower extremity (50% to 66%) and many of those injuries occur at the knee (30% to 45%), it is important to have robust metrics to measure risk of knee injury.
Jacob Larson, Edmon Perkins, Taylor Oldfather, Michael Zabala   +3 more
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