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- Title
Gender differences in muscular protection of the knee in torsion in size-matched athletes.
- Authors
Wojtys, Edward M; Huston, Laura J; Schock, Harold J; Boylan, James P; Ashton-Miller, James A
- Abstract
Female athletes who participate in sports involving jumping and cutting maneuvers are up to eight times more likely to sustain a rupture of the anterior cruciate ligament than are men participating in the same sports. We tested the hypothesis that healthy young women are able to volitionally increase the apparent torsional stiffness of the knee, by maximally activating the knee muscles, significantly less than are size-matched men participating in the same type of sport.
- Publication
The Journal of bone and joint surgery. American volume, 2003, Vol 85, Issue 5, p782
- ISSN
0021-9355
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.2106/00004623-200305000-00002