Trial reportPloS one2020
Effects of maturation on knee biomechanics during cutting and landing in young female soccer players.
Trial report in PloS one, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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13 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 24 citations in OpenAlex.
- 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
- Outcomes of a randomized controlled trial of neuromuscular training with real-time biofeedback in young female athletes.BMC musculoskeletal disorders · 2025Trial
- Association Between Change-of-Direction Performance and Landing Impact Characteristics During a Single-Leg Forward Drop Jump Landing Task in Junior Soccer Players.Journal of functional morphology and kinesiology · 2026Article
- Neuromuscular conditioning strategies and their effectiveness in preventing injuries in soccer players: a systematic review.Frontiers in sports and active living · 2026Review
- The relationship between attentional control and injury-related biomechanics in young female volleyball players.Frontiers in physiology · 2025Article
- Development of a Cutting Technique Modification Training Program and Evaluation of its Effects on Movement Quality and Cutting Performance in Male Adolescent American Football Players.Sports (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Injury incidence and risk factors in youth soccer players: a systematic literature review. Part II: Intrinsic and extrinsic risk factors.Biology of sport · 2023Review
- Predictive simulation of single-leg landing scenarios for ACL injury risk factors evaluation.PloS one · 2023Article
- Age- and Sex-Specific Joint Biomechanics in Response to Partial and Complete Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injury in the Porcine Model.Journal of athletic training · 2022Article
- Sex-specific biomechanics and morphology of the anterior cruciate ligament during skeletal growth in a porcine model.Journal of orthopaedic research : official publication of the Orthopaedic Research Society · 2022Article
- When puberty strikes: Longitudinal changes in cutting kinematics in 172 high-school female athletes.Journal of science and medicine in sport · 2021Article
- Growth and Maturity Status of Female Soccer Players: A Narrative Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Review
- Tracking Quantitative Characteristics of Cutting Maneuvers with Wearable Movement Sensors during Competitive Women's Ultimate Frisbee Games.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Article
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5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
Young female soccer players are at high risk of anterior cruciate ligament injury due to the fast-paced nature of the sport and surplus of unplanned movements during play. Neuromuscular training programs that aim to reduce this injury by targeting the associated biomechanical movements are a potential solution. While previous studies have examined the lack of dynamic knee control during landing, there are few that outline the role that maturation can play during unanticipated cutting. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to determine if young female soccer players across multiple phases of maturation exhibited the before seen differences in knee control during a drop landing as well as an unanticipated cutting task. 139 female soccer players volunteered to participate in this study and were classified in three maturational groups based on percent adult stature: prepubertal (PRE), pubertal (PUB), and post-pubertal (POST). Each group performed a drop vertical jump (DVJ) and an unanticipated cutting task (CUT). Standard 3D motion capture techniques were used to determine peak knee flexion/abduction angles and moments during each task. Within tasks, POST exhibited significantly greater peak abduction angles and moments compared to PUB/PRE. While each maturational group exhibited greater peak knee abduction angles during the DVJ compared to the CUT, peak knee abduction moments during the CUT were greater compared to the DVJ. Participants within each maturational group exhibited greater knee flexion during the DVJ compared to the CUT, however there were no differences identified between groups. During both tasks, POST/PUB exhibited greater peak knee flexion moments compared to PRE, as well as POST compared to PUB. Overall, each group exhibited significantly greater peak knee flexion moments during the CUT compared to the DVJ. These observed differences indicate the need for neuromuscular training programs that target both jumping and cutting techniques to reduce ACL injuries.
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