• Clinics · Aug 2016

    Evaluation of static and dynamic balance in athletes with anterior cruciate ligament injury - A controlled study.

    • Tiago Lazzaretti Fernandes, FelixEllen Cristina RodriguesECFaculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo, Instituto de Ortopedia e Traumatologia, Grupo de Medicina do Esporte - FIFA, São Paulo/SP, Brazil.Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo, Instituto de Ortopedia, Felipe Bessa, Natália Ms Luna, Dai Sugimoto, Júlia Maria D'Andrea Greve, and Arnaldo José Hernandez.
    • Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo, Instituto de Ortopedia e Traumatologia, Grupo de Medicina do Esporte - FIFA, São Paulo/SP, Brazil.
    • Clinics (Sao Paulo). 2016 Aug 1; 71 (8): 425429425-9.

    ObjectivesAnterior cruciate ligament injury leads to adaptive responses to maintain postural control. However, there is no consensus regarding whether leg dominance also affects postural control in athletes with anterior cruciate ligament injury. The purpose of this study was to evaluate dynamic and static postural control among athletes with and without anterior cruciate ligament injury to the dominant leg.MethodsTwenty-eight athletes, twenty-one males and seven females aged 15-45 years, were allocated to one of two groups: the anterior cruciate ligament injury group (26±3 years) or the control group without anterior cruciate ligament injury (25±6.5 years). All subjects performed one legged stance tests under eyes open and eyes closed conditions and squat and kick movement tests using a postural control protocol (AccuSwayPlus force platform, Massachusetts). The center of pressure displacement and speed were measured by the force platform. In addition, the distance traveled on the single-leg hop test was assessed as an objective measure of function.ResultsSignificantly greater mediolateral sway was found under the eyes closed condition (p=0.04) and during squat movement (p=0.01) in the anterior cruciate ligament injury group than in the control group. Analysis of the single-leg hop test results showed no difference between the groups (p=0.73).ConclusionAthletes with anterior cruciate ligament injury had greater mediolateral displacement of the center of pressure toward the dominant leg under the eyes closed condition and during squat movement compared to control athletes.

      Pubmed     Copy Citation     Plaintext  

      Add institutional full text...

    Notes

     
    Knowledge, pearl, summary or comment to share?
    300 characters remaining
    help        
    You can also include formatting, links, images and footnotes in your notes
    • Simple formatting can be added to notes, such as *italics*, _underline_ or **bold**.
    • Superscript can be denoted by <sup>text</sup> and subscript <sub>text</sub>.
    • Numbered or bulleted lists can be created using either numbered lines 1. 2. 3., hyphens - or asterisks *.
    • Links can be included with: [my link to pubmed](http://pubmed.com)
    • Images can be included with: ![alt text](https://bestmedicaljournal.com/study_graph.jpg "Image Title Text")
    • For footnotes use [^1](This is a footnote.) inline.
    • Or use an inline reference [^1] to refer to a longer footnote elseweher in the document [^1]: This is a long footnote..

    hide…