Sports Medicine

Research from Massachusetts General Hospital provides new data about sports medicine

Published in Physician Law Weekly, December 31st, 2008

According to recent research published in the American Journal of Sports Medicine, "Patients with unilateral ligament deficiency are believed to have altered kinematics of the contralateral knee, increasing the risk of contralateral joint injury. Therefore, the contralateral knees might not be a reliable normal kinematic control."

"To compare the in vivo kinematics of the uninjured contralateral knees of patients with anterior or posterior cruciate ligament deficiency with knee kinematics of age-matched patients without joint injury. Controlled laboratory study. Ten subjects with bilateral healthy knees, 10 patients with acute unilateral anterior cruciate...

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Source: Physician Law Weekly (2008-12-31)

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