Anterior Cruciate Ligament ( Acl ) Injury

A torn ACL is a injury in which also is a torn anterior cruciate ligament in the knee. When someone tears their ACL they have to have a surgery to replace it. ACL injuries range from mild, such as a small tear, to severe such as when the ligament tears completely or when the ligament and part of the bone separate from the rest of the bone. A lot of the time some of the other knee ligaments or parts of the knee are also injured. This includes cartilage such as the menisci, or bones in the knee joint they also can be broken. Your ACL can be broken during sport activities. During an activity if your leg is planted firmly on the ground then hit by a heavy/large force it could tear the ACL. Some ways your ACL can be tore is by being bent backwards,

This paper will review the work of others in regarding women’s higher rate of anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury in comparison to men. Evidence regarding these elevated rates includes alternated motor control strategies, differences in sex hormones, differences in knee flexion angles, and core strength differences in men and women athletes. Numerous studies have produced correlating data in reference to women’s higher susceptibility to knee injury during upper level athletics. Although it seems unpreventable a couple of different preventative measures have been suggested to reduce the number of knee injuries a year. These measures include supplements and active correction training of muscle movements, also a higher degree of weight training in the athletic curriculum for women’s athletics. I have personally witnessed the benefits from some of these preventative measures and can credit at least weight training as a preventative measure. There could always be more testing to see how these injuries could be better prevented in female athletes due to the fact that our knowledge of prevention is still vague at times. ACL injuries are one of the most common injuries in female athletes and also have one of the longest recoveries time periods in comparison to other injuries.

Studies have also shown that women in particular, unfortunately have a disadvantage in life when compared to male counterparts, and that is one pertaining to their higher risk for ACL injury. Due to a neuromuscular imbalance that is concomitant with overactive quadriceps strength compared to hamstring strength, females tend to place more stress on the ACL. Accordingly, this increases the pressure on the ACL leading to a higher prevalence of injury that will arise more on the female spectrum than that of the male (Myer et al., 2009). Furthermore, this is important to be aware of for female athletes and for the Physical Therapists who treat them in efforts to provide educational information regarding the relationship of stronger hamstrings correlating to a lesser chance of ACL injury. Personally, I have worked with athletic females in the past as a personal trainer and while I was not strengthening hamstrings with the direct objective to prevent an ACL injury, I was cognizant of the notion that a balanced quadriceps and hamstring ratio was necessary to avoid lower extremity injuries as a

Non-contact ACL tears are more common in sports that require jumping and pivoting. (Washington, 2009, pg. 1)

In female basketball players, neuromuscular, hormonal, and anatomical factors were considered internal factors that were the cause of non-contact ACL tears. Muscle weakness in the gluteus maximus and hamstring muscles along with poor dynamic

Introduction: The anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury occurs not only in the students and the athletes during sports but also in middle-age and the elderly during recreation activities. The patients who have high activity level undergo ACL reconstruction surgery, even if middle-age and the elderly. The recovery of muscle strength on the quadriceps following anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction surgery is influenced from ages, a kind of graft, rehabilitation, and others factors. The outcomes of ACL reconstruction in these patients are controversial although it is considered that the recovery of the postoperative muscular strength is poor in aged patients.

With an ever increasing number of people becoming involved with athletic activities, there is an increasing number of injuries occurring which can be devastating for the individual. Most of the injuries that affect athletes occur in one of four structures in the human body: bones, muscles, tendons, or ligaments. Because ligaments attach bone to bone and play a major part in providing stability for joints, the major stabilizing ligament in the knee, the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL), assists in performing everyday actions of the human body including sitting, standing, walking, running, dancing, and participating in other sports. The injury that specifically affects this ligament is very serious and always

The anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) has limited range of motion, which leads to it being the most frequently injured ligament singularly (Ireland, 1999). This study was conducted to present the epidemiology on ACL injuries in female athletes (Ireland, 1999). Epidemiology is the part of science that focuses on the causes, effects, and patterns of disease and health conditions that occur in specific populations. The epidemiology in this article focuses on female athletes that have had a noncontact ACL injury playing either basketball or soccer (Ireland, 1999).

Anterior cruciate ligament injury (ACL) is the most common knee related injury. (Agel, Arendt, & Bershadsky, 2005) The purpose of the literature review is to identify if ACL reconstruction gives patients the highest chance of returning to their pre-injury level of activity. Using various search engines, such as Cochrane, EBSCO Host, Medline, Toronto Notes 2014, and UpToDate, the following keywords were applied anterior cruciate ligament injury, ACL reconstruction, ACL rehabilitation, ACL injury outcomes. With this several appropriate research papers where found that help discuss this topic. Results have shown that surgical measures have shown the best outcomes for patient that want to return for a high level of activity, but for patients

The following is a review of literature pertaining to the anterior cruciate ligament, ACL, reconstruction and the rehabilitation used for it. First, an overview of the anatomy and physiology of the anterior cruciate ligament, ACL, will be given. The process by which the ACL is the ACL injury is managed through reconstruction, repair, and rehabilitation will be seen from previous literature. There are two types of exercises types that will be focused on and that is closed kinetic chain exercises, open kinetic chain exercises, and using the two in combination.

This essay deals with the current treatments, rehabilitation procedures and onsets following anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries. Within this essay, there will be information including the causes, characteristics, and symptoms of ACL injuries. Throughout the United States, there are estimated to be 200,000 ACL injuries per year with 100,000 of those injuries being treated through ACL reconstruction (Evans, Shaginaw, & Bartolozz, 2014). With a satisfactory ACL reconstruction outcome between 75%-97%. From the 10%-15% failure rate of ACL reconstruction, the primary fault is due to technical mistakes at 70% (Samitier, Marcano, Alentorn-Geli, Cugot, Former, & Moser,

The Anterior Cruciate Ligament also known as the ACL is deemed the most commonly torn ligament in the knee and can result from both contact and noncontact injuries. Most Anterior Cruciate Ligament injuries result from an extreme force on the lateral side of the person’s knee causing a valgus force which pushes the knee inward (Kisner & Colby, 2012, pp. 802-803). This injury to the side of the knee can also cause a “Terrible Triad” injury which also injures both the medial meniscus and the medial collateral ligament (Kisner & Colby, 2012, p. 803). Our textbook further states that “the most common noncontact mechanism is a rotational mechanism in which the tibia is externally rotated on the planted foot….this mechanism can account for as many as 78% of all ACL injuries” (Kisner & Colby, 2012, p. 803). If the person does not seek medical help with this injury they are susceptible to also injuring the remaining support ligaments as well. Patients usually present with joint effusion; possibly 25 degrees of flexion, joint swelling if blood vessels are involved, limited ROM, stress pain and instability along with quads avoidance gait patterns (Kisner & Colby, 2011, p. 208)

Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries are one of the most common sports injuries in Sweden. This type of injury may sometimes require ACL reconstructive surgery which has been increasingly more prevalent in the world of sports. This surgery takes a long time to heal and it is often a 6-12 month waiting period for the athlete to return to sports participation. Due to the fact that football places heavy demand on the knee joints, it is no surprise that there are so many ACL injuries in athletes that participate in this sport. One strength of the article would be the measures that would yield a successful ACL reconstructive surgery, and the weakness would be the assessment of the return of the athlete to the competitive level

As new medical findings become disseminated present-day practices are subject to amendment, exposing the inherent nature and complexity of the human body. This is particularly true in a health care setting where a top-down processing approach is adopted to study and treat complex comorbidities. The problem is that, while health care professionals acknowledge the limitations of the traditional top-down approach, they rarely appropriate the necessary time needed to respond to such constraints. This study intended to identify alternative methods of responding to disparities seen amongst athletes recovering from anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction (ACLR) by embracing the inherent nature and complexity of the human body.

The anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) is one of the four ligaments in the knee that connects the femur to the tibia. This ligament provides stability to the knee and it also prevents the tibia from sliding in front of the femur. ACL injury is very common in athletes who play multidirectional sports such as football, basketball and soccer. Approximately 70% of ACL injuries that occur are noncontact, and take place during a sudden change in direction while a foot is planted, or while an athlete is decelerating (cite). Intrinsic factors that contribute to ACL rupture are the quadriceps angle, intercondylar notch, ACL size and tibial slope. Female athletes are two to eight time more likely to suffer an ACL injury, compared to male athletes because