GENDER DIFFERENCES IN MUSCULAR PROTECTION OF THE KNEE IN TORSION IN SIZE-MATCHED ATHLETES
- 1 May 2003
- journal article
- clinical trial
- Published by Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) in The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery-American Volume
- Vol. 85 (5), 782-789
- https://doi.org/10.2106/00004623-200305000-00002
Abstract
Background: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 volitionaKeywords
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