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Finland is famous for many things including its haunting national anthem (creatively called 'Finlandia') and a universal love of lakes and saunas. I'll stay away from memorable Eurovision winners Lordii!
YOU CAN PREVENT ACL INJURY
In this issue of BJSM, you can read the report of the Finnish randomised controlled trial (RCT) that showed a tremendous reduction of lower limb injuries with a simple warm-up programme (see page 802).1 Although not powered for that holy grail of sports medicine research — reduced anterior cruciate ligament injuries – the study provides a very clear message. If you have a daughter who is playing basketball, soccer, handball or floorball, then it is crazy if her team isn’t undertaking one of the evidence-based warm-ups targeting lower limb injury prevention. You’ll find exercises illustrated in the links here as well as in papers previously published in Europe and the US. There is now incontrovertible evidence that a series of warm-up programmes that encourage neuromuscular training and balance activities have more benefits than risks. We owe a great deal to pioneers including Caraffa, Myklebust, Maendelbaum and Silvers.2 If you missed the special IOC knee consensus statement in June,3 you can download it from the BJSM home page (click on “Browse by Issues” on the right-hand side).
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