• Knee Surg Sports Traumatol Arthrosc · Mar 2016

    The correlation between anterior cruciate ligament injury in elite alpine skiers and their parents.

    • Maria Westin, Sandra Reeds-Lundqvist, and Suzanne Werner.
    • Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery, Stockholm Sports Trauma Research Center, Karolinska Institutet, Box 5605, 114 27, Stockholm, Sweden. maria.westin.3@ki.se.
    • Knee Surg Sports Traumatol Arthrosc. 2016 Mar 1; 24 (3): 697-701.

    PurposeThe aim of this study was to investigate whether a familiar correlation with anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury exists between competitive alpine skiers and their parents.MethodsAll 593 (293 males, 300 females) elite alpine skiers who have studied at a Swedish alpine Ski High School during 2006 and 2012 answered a questionnaire whether they or their parents had suffered an ACL injury. A total of 418 skiers (70%) answered the questionnaire.ResultsTwenty-nine per cent (n = 19) out of the 65 ACL-injured skiers reported that they had a parent (mother or father) who have had an ACL injury. In skiers without an ACL injury (n = 353), the result was 18% (n = 64). An odds ratio of 1.95 (95% confidence interval 1.04-3.65) was found to suffer an ACL injury if you have a parent who has had an ACL injury compared with if you have a parent without any ACL injury.ConclusionThe findings of the current study demonstrated a family history to tear the ACL between alpine skiers who had studied at a Swedish Ski High School and ACL injuries of their parents.Level Of EvidenceIII.

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