Background: Women's susceptibility to injuries involving the anterior cruciate ligament
remains unexplained. Volitional contraction of the knee musculature is known to increase …

Background In many sports, female athletes have a higher incidence of anterior cruciate
ligament injury than do male athletes. Among many risk factors, the lower rotatory joint …

Background Torsional joint stiffness is thought to play a role in the observed sex bias in
noncontact anterior cruciate ligament injury rates. Hypothesis Women will exhibit lower …

Background: It has been reported that over 70% of anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries
occur in noncontact situations and that females are at 2 to 8 times greater risk of ACL injury …

The anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) is the most commonly injured knee ligament with the
highest incidence of injury in female athletes who participate in pivoting sports. Noncontact …

Objective. To compare extensibility, and passive and active stiffness of the knee flexors
between males and females. Design. An experimental design utilized 15 males and 15 …

BACKGROUND: Researchers have theorized that the disproportionate number of anterior
cruciate ligament injuries in females, as compared to males, may be related to knee laxity …

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 …

Individuals who have undergone ACL reconstruction (ACLR) have been shown to have a
higher risk of developing knee osteoarthritis (OA). The elevated risk of knee OA may be …

Background: Compared with men, women have disproportionally greater frontal (varus-
valgus) and transverse (internal-external) plane laxity and lower stiffness, despite having …