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Quadriceps assessment in professional soccer players
1 Edinburgh University Medical School, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
2 Research and Development Office, Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
3 Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Glasgow
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Correspondence to:
S J Bennet
Edinburgh University Medical School, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK; simonbennet@hotmail.com
Keywords: quadriceps assessment; football; knee injury
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Clinical examination of the knee involves eliciting certain signs that may indicate the presence of knee pathology. One such is quadriceps wasting. This occurs most commonly as the result of disuse or from a painful or unstable lesion of the knee.
Comparing the circumference of the thighs at a set level above the patella is the standard method of testing for atrophy.1,2 This, however, assumes that the thighs are normally of equal circumference.3
It has been noted by the senior author (GCB) that, in children, the non-kicking leg seemed often to be larger than the other. We aimed to test this observation in a prospective study of a group of professional soccer players.
A population of 38 players took part in the study, all from professional clubs in Edinburgh. None had a recent injury.
All the participants had both thigh circumferences measured at a point 15 cm above the proximal
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