Warm up
ACL injuries — problem solved?
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Oslo Sports Trauma Research Center, Department of Sports Medicine, Norwegian School of Sport Sciences, Oslo, Norway; roald@nih.no
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To the novice reader, it must seem like sports medicine journals provide inordinate attention to the middle and anterior third of the tibia plateau and the ligament attaching there: the anterior cruciate ligament. This issue of the BJSM is no exception, with as many as five papers on the ACL; but why all the fuss? Aren’t there excellent programmes to prevent ACL injuries?
It is true that last year three large-scale studies reported that serious knee injuries can be prevented. In the BMJ, Pasanen and colleagues1 showed that their neuromuscular training programme is effective in preventing non-contact leg injuries in elite female floorball players and Soligard and colleagues2 showed that a structured warm-up programme — The 11+ — can prevent lower extremity injuries in young female football players. In addition, Gilchrist et al3 showed that a similar programme, also focusing on neuromuscular control, reduced the risk of
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