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What Is an Anterior Drawer Test?

What Is the Anterior Cruciate Ligament? The anterior cruciate ligament is part of the connective tissue inside your knee joint on the front of your knee. The cruciate ligaments cross in an X pattern ...
BMJ

16 Relationships between a multidirectional reactive agility test, functional performance and patient-reported outcome measures 6 months after anterior cruciate ligament ...

Introduction Return-to-sport testing after anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction traditionally occurs during pre-planned activities. The aim of this study was to investigate the ...
The New York Times

Why do so many play on after damaging anterior cruciate ligaments? An expert explains

When Gabriel Jesus fell to the grass clutching his knee around 30 minutes into Arsenal’s FA Cup tie against Manchester United this month, it looked like the Brazilian’s night was over. But after the ...
BMJ

Questioning the rules of engagement: a critical analysis of the use of limb symmetry index for safe return to sport after anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction

Objective To evaluate the association between limb symmetry index (LSI) in quadriceps and hamstrings strength together with hop tests, as a proxy of recovery, and the deviation from being symmetrical ...
Healio

Lever test yielded high sensitivity, specificity in diagnosis of ACL injury

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Results of this level 2 study showed the lever test resulted in high sensitivity, specificity and overall ...