SynthesisThe American journal of sports medicine2018
The Effects of Injury Prevention Programs on the Biomechanics of Landing Tasks: A Systematic Review With Meta-analysis.
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51 citing papers in PubMed, 6 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 117 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Influence of Neuromuscular Training Interventions on Jump-Landing Biomechanics and Implications for ACL Injuries in Youth Females: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2025Pooled it
- Injury Prevention Programmes Fail to Change Most Lower Limb Kinematics and Kinetics in Female Team Field and Court Sports: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomised Controlled Trials.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2024Pooled it
- Effects of Multicomponent Injury Prevention Programs on Children and Adolescents' Fundamental Movement Skills: A Systematic Review With Meta-Analyses.American journal of health promotion : AJHP · 2023Pooled it
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- The influence of lateral dominance on bilateral performance in alpine skiers.Frontiers in sports and active living · 2026Article
- Dual benefits of neuromuscular training in adolescent volleyball players: knee injury prevention and athletic performance share a common mechanistic foundation: a structured narrative review.Frontiers in sports and active living · 2026Review
- Reliability of a Novel Qualitative Assessment Tool for Evaluating a Run Plant Task.International journal of sports physical therapy · 2026Article
- Foot Posture Characteristics and Bilateral Load Distribution in African Male Recreational Runners: Insights from Foot Posture Index and 3D Scanning.Journal of functional morphology and kinesiology · 2025Article
- Interpretable prediction of knee joint loading during tennis serves based on GNN-GRU model and layer-wise relevance propagation.Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. Part H, Journal of engineering in medicine · 2025Article
- Association among isometric hip strength, hip joint stiffness, and dynamic Knee Valgus in jump-landing tasks.Scientific reports · 2025Article
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6 authors at 4 institutions in 3 countries.
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Abstract
backgroundAnterior cruciate ligament (ACL) tear is a common injury in sports and often occurs during landing from a jump. PURPOSE: To synthesize the evidence on the effects of injury prevention programs (IPPs) on landing biomechanics as they relate to the ligament, quadriceps, trunk, and leg dominance theories associated with ACL injury risk. STUDY
designMeta-analysis.
methodsSix electronic databases were searched for studies that investigated the effect of IPPs on landing task biomechanics. Prospective studies that reported landing biomechanics at baseline and post-IPP were included. Results from trunk, hip, and knee kinematics and kinetics related to the ACL injury theories were extracted, and meta-analyses were performed when possible.
resultsThe criteria were met by 28 studies with a total of 466 participants. Most studies evaluated young females, bilateral landing tasks, and recreational athletes, while most variables were related to the ligament and quadriceps dominance theories. An important predictor of ACL injury, peak knee abduction moment, decreased ( P = .01) after the IPPs while other variables related to the ligament dominance theory did not change. Regarding the quadriceps dominance theory, after the IPPs, angles of hip flexion at initial contact ( P = .009), peak hip flexion ( P = .002), and peak knee flexion ( P = .007) increased, while knee flexion at initial contact did not change ( P = .18). Moreover, peak knee flexion moment decreased ( P = .005) and peak vertical ground-reaction force did not change ( P = .10).
conclusionThe exercises used in IPPs might have the potential to improve landing task biomechanics related to the quadriceps dominance theory, especially increasing peak knee and hip flexion angles. Importantly, peak knee abduction moment decreased, which indicates that IPPs influence a desired movement strategy to help athletes overcome dangerous ligament dominance loads arising from lack of frontal plane control during dynamic tasks. The lack of findings for some biomechanical variables suggests that future IPPs may be enhanced by targeting participants' baseline profile deficits, highlighting the need to deliver an individualized and task-specific IPP.
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