[net-gold] SPORTS: MEDICINE : SPORTS INJURIES : SPORTS: SKIING: Female Skiers Likelier to Injure Non-Dominant Knee
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- Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2012 10:23:17 -0400 (EDT)
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SPORTS: MEDICINE :
SPORTS INJURIES :
SPORTS: SKIING:
Female Skiers Likelier to Injure Non-Dominant Knee
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Female Skiers Likelier to Injure Non-Dominant Knee
April 06, 2012
Kerry Grens
Reuters
Chicago Tribune
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2012-04-06/lifestyle/
sns-rt-us-female-skiersbre8350ih-20120406_1_acl-injuries-skiers-
incidence-of-acl-tears
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A shorter URL for the above link:
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http://tinyurl.com/cyfrrhn
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Women skiers are more likely than men to
injure a knee while skiing, and a new study shows they are about twice as
likely to have that injury occur to their non-dominant leg, often the left
one.
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The study did not go so far as to explain these inequalities, but Dr.
Robert Johnson, a sports medicine physician at the University of Vermont
College of Medicine said it could be caused "by a whole herd of issues."
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"Anatomy, strength patterns, muscle patterns, wider pelvis...it all adds
up. It's not just one factor," said Johnson, who was not involved in the
research.
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Earlier studies have shown that women are twice as likely as men to hurt
a knee during downhill ski crashes, and three times as likely to tear the
knee's anterior cruciate ligament, or ACL.
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Gerhard Ruedl, lead author of the new study and a researcher at the
University of Innsbruck in Austria, said he was interested in looking at
whether women's knee troubles had to do with leg dominance.
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The dominant leg is the one that a person prefers to kick with.
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Men were just about equally likely to have injured their left knee as
their right, although 87 percent of them were right-leg dominant.
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Most women, 91 percent, were also right-leg dominant, but twice as many
injured their left ACL as their right.
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Ruedl said women have greater body asymmetry than men with regard to
strength and proprioception, the sense of how the body -- in this case,
the knee -- is positioned.
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"Studies show that strength and proprioception is greater in the dominant
compared to the non-dominant leg," Ruedl told Reuters Health by email.
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This could perhaps make women more vulnerable to the strain that is put
on the non-dominant knee as a skier turns.
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"During a carving turn the greatest pressure is on the inside edge of the
downhill (outside) ski," he said. "Our results showed that most skiers
injured their ACL during a right turn where the left leg (= mostly the
non-dominant leg) is the outside leg."
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