Your book really helped me understand that there are more layers to this issue than I realized. This is the injury I feared the most when I played volleyball. Maybe all of the years I spent jumping out of trees as a little kid helped protect me.
So many layers!! I bet all that jumping and landing helped. Honestly, I think that's the main reason I let my kid jump and run and pretend to juke me all through the apartment even though it drives me crazy! 😂
Can you recommend a link to the best and basic ACL tear prevention exercises we all should do? (As a runner, I usually don’t worry about this much, but now that I’m skiing, I do.) The link above to the scientific paper is an abstract with a paywall. Thank you for covering this!
Take a look at Figure 3 to see the different types of exercises evaluated. They write: "Specifically, programs that included more landing stabilization exercises (eg, drop landings, jump/hop and holds), hamstring strength (eg, Nordic hamstring), lunges, and heel-calf raises reduced the risk for ACL injury to a greater degree than did programs without these exercises."
There's also this app (https://www.riipreps.com/) that's developed by someone from the Hospital for Special Surgery and is being used/endorsed by the National ACL Injury Coalition.
Your book really helped me understand that there are more layers to this issue than I realized. This is the injury I feared the most when I played volleyball. Maybe all of the years I spent jumping out of trees as a little kid helped protect me.
So many layers!! I bet all that jumping and landing helped. Honestly, I think that's the main reason I let my kid jump and run and pretend to juke me all through the apartment even though it drives me crazy! 😂
This is so important and overdue.
Can you recommend a link to the best and basic ACL tear prevention exercises we all should do? (As a runner, I usually don’t worry about this much, but now that I’m skiing, I do.) The link above to the scientific paper is an abstract with a paywall. Thank you for covering this!
Yes! Really great idea to think about this if you're skiing!
Sorry about including a paper with a paywall! Here's a systematic review and meta analysis from 2019 specifically looking at young female athletes: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6592422/.
Take a look at Figure 3 to see the different types of exercises evaluated. They write: "Specifically, programs that included more landing stabilization exercises (eg, drop landings, jump/hop and holds), hamstring strength (eg, Nordic hamstring), lunges, and heel-calf raises reduced the risk for ACL injury to a greater degree than did programs without these exercises."
There's also this app (https://www.riipreps.com/) that's developed by someone from the Hospital for Special Surgery and is being used/endorsed by the National ACL Injury Coalition.
thank you :-) glad I already do a lot of these on a regular basis, but will add some.