ArticleThe American journal of sports medicine2021
Clinical-Grade MRI-Based Methods to Identify Combined Anatomic Factors That Predict ACL Injury Risk in Male and Female Athletes.
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- An Evidence-Based and Mechanistic Approach to Reducing the Risk of Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injury: An Exercise and Sport Science Australia Position Statement.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2026Article
- Risk Factors Associated with Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injuries in Athletes During Physical Activity According to Sex: A Scoping Review.Sports (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Notch geometry varies with sex and anthropometrics: An analysis on 1043 adults.Journal of experimental orthopaedics · 2025Article
- Anatomical Tissue Engineering of the Anterior Cruciate Ligament Entheses.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023Review
- Medial meniscus tears are most prevalent in type I ACL tears, while type I ACL tears only account for 8% of all ACL tears.Knee surgery, sports traumatology, arthroscopy : official journal of the ESSKA · 2023Article
- Key Thresholds and Relative Contributions of Knee Geometry, Anteroposterior Laxity, and Body Weight as Risk Factors for Noncontact ACL Injury.Orthopaedic journal of sports medicine · 2023Article
- The Lateral Femoral Condyle Index Is Not a Risk Factor for Primary Noncontact Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injury.The American journal of sports medicine · 2022Article
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Abstract
backgroundRecently developed multivariate sex-specific statistical models can predict anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury risk using various knee anatomic factors. However, screening tools able to identify individuals at an increased injury risk are unlikely to be developed based on these models, given that sophisticated and time-consuming methods were used to measure those factors on research-grade resolution magnetic resonance images (MRIs). PURPOSE: To determine whether simpler methods, amenable to using clinical-grade resolution MRIs, can identify the same knee anatomic factors previously found to contribute to ACL injury risk using sophisticated methods and research-grade resolution images. STUDY
designCohort study (diagnosis); Level of evidence, 2.
methodsHigh-resolution 3-dimensional MRIs previously acquired from 87 patients with primary, noncontact, grade III ACL injury and 87 uninjured matched control participants for a series of published studies were downgraded to clinical-grade resolution images. The 4 knee anatomic factors found to contribute to ACL injury risk in women and in men in these published studies-femoral intercondylar notch width at the anterior outlet of the ACL (NW_O), posterior-inferior directed slope of the middle region articular cartilage surface of the tibial plateau's lateral compartment (L
resultsThe multivariate model that best predicted ACL injury risk in the female participants included the L
conclusionSimpler methods using MRIs downgraded to a clinical-grade resolution can identify the same knee anatomic factors previously found to significantly contribute to ACL injury risk using sophisticated methods and research-grade resolution MRIs.
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