Lower extremity injuries in college athletes: Relation between ligamentous laxity and lower extremity muscle tightness

Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Volumn 77, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 1139-1143

  Krivickas, Lisa S ^a   Feinberg, Joseph H ^b  

^a and Red Sox Foundation and Massachusetts General Hospital Home Base Program   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATHLETE; COLLEGE; FEMALE; HUMAN; JOINT STABILITY; LEG INJURY; LEG MUSCLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MUSCLE STRENGTH; PREVALENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SPORT INJURY; STUDENT;

EID: 0029961384     PISSN: 00039993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-9993(96)90137-9     Document Type: Article

References (30)

1. Gleim GW, Stachenfeld NS, Nicholas JA. The influence of flexibility on the economy of walking and jogging. J Orthop Res 1990;8: 814-23.
2. Lee EJ, Etnyre BR, Poindexter HBW, Sokol DL, Toon TJ. Flexibility characteristics of elite female and male Volleyball players. J Sports Med 1989;29:49-51.
3. Safran MR, Seaber AV, Garrett WE. Warm-up and muscular injury prevention. Sports Med 1989;8:239-49.
4. Rooks DS, Micheli LJ. Musculoskeletal assessment and training: the young athlete. Clin Sports Med 1988;7:641-75.
5. Ekstrand J, Gillquist J. The frequency of muscle tightness and injuries in soccer players. Am J Sports Med 1982;10:75-8.
6. Wang SS, Whitney SL, Burden RG, Janosky JE. Lower extremity muscular flexibility in long distance runners. J Orthop Sports Phys Ther 1993;17:102-7.
7. Horan FT, Beighton PH. Recessive inheritance of generalized joint hypermobility. Rheumatol Phys Med 1973;12:47-9.
8. Beighton P, Solomon L, Soskolne CL. Articular mobility in an African population. Ann Rheum Dis 1973;32:413-8.
9. Larsson LG, Baum J, Mudholkar GS, Srivastava DK. Hypermobility: prevalence and features in a Swedish population. Br J Rheumatol 1993;32:116-9.
10. Diaz MA, Estevez EC, Guijo PS. Joint hyperlaxity and musculoligamentous lesions: study of a population of homogeneous age, sex and physical exertion. Br J Rheumatol 1993;32:120-2.
11. Al-Rawi ZS, Al-Aszawi AJ, Al-Chalabi T. Joint mobility among university students in Iraq. Br J Rheumatol 1985;24:326-31.
12. Grahame R, Jenkins JM. Joint hypermobility - asset or liability? A study of joint mobility in ballet dancers. Ann Rheum Dis 1972; 31:109-11.
13. Klemp P, Stevens JE, Isaacs S. A hypermobility study in ballet dancers. J Rheumatol 1984;11:692-6.
14. Brodie DA, Bird HA, Wright V. Joint laxity in selected athletic populations. Med Sci Sports Exerc 1982;14:190-3.
15. Larsson LG, Baum J, Mudholkar GS, Kollia GD. Benefits and disadvantages of joint hypermobility among musicians. N Eng J Med 1993;329:1079-82.
16. Backx FJG, Erich WBM. Sports injuries in school-aged children. An epidemiologic study. Am J Sports Med 1989;17:234-40.
17. Ekstrand J, Gillquist J. Soccer injuries and their mechanisms: a prospective study. Med Sci Sports Exerc 1983;15:267-70.
18. Knapik JJ, Bauman CL, Jones BH, Harris JM, Vaughan L. Preseason strength and flexibility imbalances associated with athletic injuries in female collegiate athletes. Am J Sports Med 1991;19:76-81.
19. McLain LG, Reynolds S. Sports injuries in a high school. Pediatrics 1989;84:446-50.
20. Lysens RJ, Ostyn MS, Auweele YV, Lefevre J, Vuylsteke M, Renson L. The accident-prone and overuse-prone profiles of the young athlete. Am J Sports Med 1989;17:612-9.
21. Smith AD, Stroud L, McQueen C. Flexibility and anterior knee pain in adolescent elite figure skaters. J Ped Orthop 1991;11:77-82.
22. Nicholas JA. Injuries to the knee ligaments. JAMA 1970;212:2236-9.
23. Corbin CB. Flexibility. Clin Sports Med 1984;3:101-17.
24. Godshall RW. The prediction of athletic injury: an eight-year study. J Sports Med 1975;3:50-4.
25. Grana WA, Moretz JA. Ligamentous laxity in secondary school athletes. JAMA 1978;240:1975-6.
26. Kalenak A, Morehouse CA. Knee stability and knee ligament injury. JAMA 1975;234:1143-5.
27. Moretz JA. Flexibility as a predictor of knee injuries in college football players. Phys Sports Med 1992;10:93-7.
28. Jackson DW, Jarrett H, Bailey D, Kausek J, Swanson J, Powell JW. Injury prediction in the young athlete: a preliminary report. Am J Sports Med 1978;6:6-14.
29. Carter C, Wilkinson J. Persistent joint laxity and congenital dislocation of the hip. J Bone Joint Surg Br 1964;46:40-5.
30. Hosmer DW, Lemeshow S. Applied logistic regression. New York: John Wiley, 1989.