Risk Prediction Of Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injuries

Download or read book Risk Prediction of Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injuries written by Nicolaos Karatzas and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It is estimated that a quarter of a million anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries occur each year in Canada and in the United States. Injuries lead to time away from sports and physical activity, which has obvious health disadvantages and also causes a great deal of personal suffering. The real solution to this problem does not lie in improvement of surgical techniques but in prevention of ACL injuries altogether. The challenge is identifying individuals that are at an increased risk. The current methods to assess ACL injury risk include motion analysis. Motion analysis systems have shown that jumping dynamics can reliably predict the risk of knee injury, but such systems are expensive and are only available in well-equipped research centers. Our goal is to develop a tool that will predict at-risk athletes based solely on a jumping movement they can perform anywhere. Through the integration of modern tools and technologies, we created an injury prevention application that is powerful, easy to use, and can be downloaded on any computer with a 3-D capture camera. This low-cost tracking application will record, identify and analyze an individual’s movements and determine their likelihood of injury based on known prognostic jumping angles.Our data has shown comparable results with the motion analysis system. Therefore, providing a cheaper alternative to assessing athletes risk of an ACL injury. The practicality and ease of use of our system will support an injury prevention program in order to have more people assessed for ACL injury"--