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- Title
Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injuries in Pediatric Athletes Presenting to Sports Medicine Clinic: A Comparison of Males and Females Through Growth and Development.
- Authors
Stracciolini, Andrea; Stein, Cynthia J.; Zurakowski, David; Meehan, William P.; Myer, Gregory D.; Micheli, Lyle J.
- Abstract
The article presents a study which evaluates anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries in pediatric athletes presenting to a sports medicine clinic with regard to sex and age and body mass index. Subjects of the study consisted of a randomly selected children 5 to 17 years of age, and aggregated data include demographics, injury mechanism, diagnosis, treatment, previous injury, and organized sports. It was found that girls had a steeper increase of ACL injury/total injury by age than boys.
- Subjects
ANTERIOR cruciate ligament injuries; SPORTS medicine; SPORTS injuries; CHILD athletes; CHILDREN in sports
- Publication
Sports Health: A Multidisciplinary Approach, 2015, Vol 7, Issue 2, p130
- ISSN
1941-7381
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/1941738114554768