Current Concepts in Hip and Core Assessment to Reduce the Risk of ACL Injury.

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What this paper is

This is a current concepts review, not a new study. It brings together previously published research on how hip and trunk (core) muscle function relates to ACL injury risk, and it discusses assessment options a clinician might use: hand-held dynamometry for hip strength, single-leg step-down and single-leg squat tests, single-leg hop tests, and the Y-Balance and Star Excursion Balance tests. It also covers prevention programmes and reported differences between male and female athletes. It reports no patients of its own, and no methods or results, so there is no study finding here you can act on. Whatever conclusions it draws are the authors' reading of other people's studies, not a tested intervention.

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