ArticleFrontiers in pediatrics2019
Lower Extremity Biomechanics Are Altered Across Maturation in Sport-Specialized Female Adolescent Athletes.
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- Changes in Lower Limb Biomechanics Across Various Stages of Maturation and Implications for ACL Injury Risk in Female Athletes: a Systematic Review.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2024Pooled it
- Relationship Between Jump-Landing Kinematics and Lower Extremity Overuse Injuries in Physically Active Populations: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2020Pooled it
- What Defines Early Specialization: A Systematic Review of Literature.Frontiers in sports and active living · 2020Pooled it
- 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
- Injury epidemiology, patterns, and risk factors in youth and adolescent badminton players: a PRISMA-ScR-guided scoping review.Frontiers in sports and active living · 2026Review
- Knee Armor Training Program: An 8-Week Sensorimotor Approach to Reducing Knee Injury Risk in Women's Rugby.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Article
- Early Sport Specialization in a Pediatric Population: A Rapid Review of Injury, Function, Performance, and Psychological Outcomes.Clinics and practice · 2025Review
- The role of age and maturation on jump performance and postural control in female adolescent volleyball players over a season.BMC sports science, medicine & rehabilitation · 2025Article
- Between-Session Reliability of Athletic Performance and Injury Mitigation Measures in Female Adolescent Athletes in the United States.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Postural Analysis Using Rasterstereography and Inertial Measurement Units in Volleyball Players: Different Roles as Indicators of Injury Predisposition.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2023Article
- Is There Just One Type of Multisport Pathway? A Scoping Review of Multisport Engagement in Early Athlete Development.Sports medicine - open · 2023Article
- Boys demonstrate greater knee frontal moments than girls during the impact phase of cutting maneuvers, despite age-related increases in girls.Knee surgery, sports traumatology, arthroscopy : official journal of the ESSKA · 2023Article
- Movement Regularity Differentiates Specialized and Nonspecialized Athletes in a Virtual Reality Soccer Header Task.Journal of sport rehabilitation · 2023Article
- Injury Pathology in Young Gymnasts: A Retrospective Analysis.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Differences in Lower Extremity Coordination Patterns as a Function of Sports Specialization.Journal of motor behavior · 2023Article
- Effect of Sex and Maturation on Knee Extensor and Flexor Strength in Adolescent Athletes.The American journal of sports medicine · 2022Article
- Effects of Pre-Collegiate Sport Specialization on Cognitive, Postural, and Psychological Functions: Findings from the NCAA-DoD CARE Consortium.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Maturity alters drop vertical jump landing force-time profiles but not performance outcomes in adolescent females.Scandinavian journal of medicine & science in sports · 2021Article
- Dynamic Knee Valgus in Single-Leg Movement Tasks. Potentially Modifiable Factors and Exercise Training Options. A Literature Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Review
- Risk of Injuries Associated With Sport Specialization and Intense Training Patterns in Young Athletes: A Longitudinal Clinical Case-Control Study.Orthopaedic journal of sports medicine · 2020Article
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Abstract
Sport specialization is a growing trend in youth athletes and may contribute to increased injury risk. The neuromuscular deficits that often manifest during maturation in young, female athletes may be exacerbated in athletes who specialize in a single sport. The purpose of this study was to investigate if sport specialization is associated with increased lower extremity biomechanical deficits pre- to post-puberty in adolescent female athletes. Seventy-nine sport-specialized female adolescent (Mean ± SD age = 13.4 ± 1.8 years) basketball, soccer, and volleyball athletes were identified and matched with seventy-nine multi-sport (soccer, basketball, and volleyball) female athletes from a database of 1,116 female adolescent basketball, soccer, and volleyball athletes who were enrolled in one of two large prospective, longitudinal studies. The athletes were assessed over two visits (Mean ± SD time = 724.5 ± 388.7 days) in which they were classified as pre-pubertal and post-pubertal, respectively. Separate 2 × 2 analyses of covariance were used to compare sport-specialized and multi-sport groups and dominant/non-dominant limbs with respect to pubertal changes in peak knee sagittal, frontal, and transverse plane joint angular measures and moments of force recorded while performing a drop vertical jump task. The sport-specialized group were found to exhibit significantly larger post-pubertal increases in peak knee abduction angle (
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