Boosting the clinical use of ground reaction forces in anterior cruciate ligament injury prevention: The 'CUTtheACL' study.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Ground reaction forces (GRF) data have been introduced to enhance the understanding of anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury pathomechanics. However, translating GRF information into daily clinical practice remains challenging for high-demanding movements such as cutting manoeuvres. This study aims to describe GRF of the 90° change of direction (COD) task, providing robust benchmark data and force-time curve description to enhance their use in clinical practice, particularly ACL injury prevention.

Methods

One thousand and two healthy football (soccer) players (16.3 ± 2.8 years, 264 females) performed three preplanned 90° COD tasks per limb at maximum intensity, with the cutting foot contact performed on an artificial turf floor embedded force platform (AMTI), which

SUBMITTER: Di Paolo S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12582228 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature