"What's my risk of sustaining an ACL injury while playing sports?" A systematic review with meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To estimate the incidence proportion (IP) and incidence rate (IR) for ACL injury in athletes.

Design

Systematic review with meta-analysis DATA SOURCES: The PubMed, CINAHL and SPORTDiscus electronic databases were searched from inception to 20 January 2017.

Eligibility criteria for selecting studies

Studies were included if they reported total number of participants/population by sex, total number of ACL injuries by sex and total person-time by sex.

Results

Fifty-eight studies were included. The IP and IR of ACL injury in female athletes were 3.5% (1 out of every 29 athletes) and 1.5/10 000 athlete-exposures over a period of 1 season-25 years. The IP and IR of ACL injury in male athletes were 2.0% (1 out of every 50 athletes) and 0.9/10 000 athlete-exp

SUBMITTER: Montalvo AM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6561829 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature