Biomechanical Determinants of Performance and Injury Risk During Cutting: A Performance-Injury Conflict?

ABSTRACT:

Background

Most cutting biomechanical studies investigate performance and knee joint load determinants independently. This is surprising because cutting is an important action linked to performance and non-contact anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between cutting biomechanics and cutting performance (completion time, ground contact time [GCT], exit velocity) and surrogates of non-contact ACL injury risk (knee abduction [KAM] and internal rotation [KIRM] moments) during 90° cutting.

Design

Mixed, cross-sectional study following an associative design. 61 males from multidirectional sports performed six 90° pre-planned cutting trials, whereby lower-limb and trunk kinetics and kinematics were evaluated using thre

SUBMITTER: Dos'Santos T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8363537 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature