BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to assess the risk of knee injuries among vulnerable road users, such as pedestrians, bicyclists and motorcyclists. METHODS Two different periods (years 1985-1993 and 1995-2003) were compared. Inclusion criteria were furthermore Abbreviated Injury Scale knee 2-3 (AIS(knee)). Technical analysis assessed the type of collision, direction and speed as well...

Medial collateral ligament (MCL)injury, is one of the most common ligament injuries of the knee,mostly results from a valgus force.Restoration of function and going back to the pre-injury level of function is the aim of treatment in ligament injuries of the knee. There are multiple soft tissue structures in medial side that play an important role in connection with each other to retain medial s...

BACKGROUND Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury is a severe event for a footballer, but it is unclear if the knee injury rate is higher on returning to football after ACL injury. OBJECTIVE To study the risk of knee injury in elite footballers with a history of ACL injury compared with those without. METHOD The Swedish male professional league (310 players) was studied during 2001. Player...

BACKGROUND Golf is commonly considered a low-impact sport that carries little risk of injury to the knee and is generally allowed following total knee arthroplasty (TKA). Kinematic and kinetic studies of the golf swing have reported results relevant to the knee, but consensus as to the loads experienced during a swing and how the biomechanics of an individual's technique may expose the knee to ...

The Knee Injury and Osteoarthritis Outcome Score (KOOS) is one of the valid reliable tools for patient-reported assessment knee joint in cases injury or osteoarthritis, before after replacement. aim this study was to evaluate validity reliability Bulgarian version KOOS questionnaire. First, original English translated into Bulgarian, back-translated, pilot-tested clarity acceptance. Then questi...

BACKGROUND Female athletes are at significantly greater risk of anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury than male athletes in the same high-risk sports. Decreased trunk (core) neuromuscular control may compromise dynamic knee stability. HYPOTHESES (1) Increased trunk displacement after sudden force release would be associated with increased knee injury risk; (2) coronal (lateral), not sagitta...

OBJECTIVE To examine if unilateral knee injury affects the synovial fluid concentrations of aggrecan fragments, cartilage oligomeric matrix protein (COMP) fragments, stromelysin-1, and tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinases-1 (TIMP-1) in the contralateral uninjured knee. METHODS Synovial fluids from the injured and uninjured knees were obtained at different times in a group of patients after ...

objective(s): the effect of silica nanoparticles (snps) in sport shoes outsoles on the  parameters related to anterior cruciate ligament (acl) injury has not been investigated. the aim of this study was to investigate the effect of shoes outsole containing a composite of thermoplastic elastomer based on styrene-butadiene and silica nanoparticles (tpen shoe) on knee valgus angle (kva) as a risk ...

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-known, but less is known about knee injury prevention. We have designed a cluster randomized controlled trial (RCT) to evaluate the effect of a wa...