conclusions our observations add to the knowledge base of the various causes of meniscus tears; this study also revealed that socio-cultural factors influence and contribute to the mechanism of various types of knee injury. patients and methods this retrospective study was conducted in a tertiary care orthopaedic hospital which caters to a population of 10 million people. we assessed 120 non-at...

BACKGROUND Sports activities were thought to be the major cause of meniscus injury in both men and woman, but our observations of non-athletic females show that the cause of meniscus injury was unrelated to any type of sports activity. OBJECTIVES This study revealed squat winnowing to be a major cause of meniscus injury in non-athletic females. PATIENTS AND METHODS This retrospective study ...

In this study, we examined the association between girls' participation in high school sports and the physical activity, weight, body mass, and body composition of adolescent females during the 1970s when girls' sports participation was dramatically increasing as a result of Title IX. We found that increases in girls' participation in high school sports, a proxy for expanded athletic opportunit...

Non-contact anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury rates are 3-8 times greater for female athletes when compared to their male counterparts. To better understand the biomechanical and neuromuscular risk factors associated with ACL injuries in females, numerous studies have examined sex differences in lower extremity biomechanics during athletic tasks. Studies in this area consistently have rep...

BACKGROUND Athletic pubalgia is typically associated with male athletes participating in contact sports and less frequently with females. Endoscopic surgery may fully treat the patient with athletic pubalgia. PURPOSE To perform an outcomes analysis of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and endoscopic surgery in female patients with athletic pubalgia. STUDY DESIGN Cohort study; Level of eviden...

Many sexual differences are known in human and animals. It is well known that females are superior in longevity, while males in athletic performances. Even though some sexual differences are attributed to the evolutionary tradeoff between survival and reproduction, the aforementioned sex differences are difficult to explain by this tradeoff. Here we show that the evolutionary tradeoff occurs am...

OBJECTIVES To establish how sport, and access to an athletic identity, has been used when adjusting to a spinal cord injury. DESIGN Qualitative study using semi-structured interviews. SETTING Private athletic club. PARTICIPANTS Eight (six males and two females) athletes from a wheelchair badminton club participated in the study. The individuals had finished rehabilitation, and were aged b...