@article{f775864f61ee43b7b610a9eb1e6a453f,
title = "The effects of neuromuscular training on knee joint motor control during sidecutting in female elite soccer and handball players",
abstract = "OBJECTIVE: The project aimed to implement neuromuscular training during a full soccer and handball league season and to experimentally analyze the neuromuscular adaptation mechanisms elicited by this training during a standardized sidecutting maneuver known to be associated with non-contact anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury. DESIGN: The players were tested before and after 1 season without implementation of the prophylactic training and subsequently before and after a full season with the implementation of prophylactic training. PARTICIPANTS: A total of 12 female elite soccer players and 8 female elite team handball players aged 26 +/- 3 years at the start of the study. INTERVENTION: The subjects participated in a specific neuromuscular training program previously shown to reduce non-contact ACL injury. METHODS: Neuromuscular activity at the knee joint, joint angles at the hip and knee, and ground reaction forces were recorded during a sidecutting maneuver. Neuromuscular activity in the prelanding phase was obtained 10 and 50 ms before foot strike on a force plate and at 10 and 50 ms after foot strike on a force plate. RESULTS: Neuromuscular training markedly increased before activity and landing activity electromyography (EMG) of the semitendinosus (P < 0.05), while quadriceps EMG activity remained unchanged. CONCLUSIONS: Neuromuscular training increased EMG activity for the medial hamstring muscles, thereby decreasing the risk of dynamic valgus. This observed neuromuscular adaptation during sidecutting could potentially reduce the risk for non-contact ACL injury.",
keywords = "Adult, Anterior Cruciate Ligament, Athletic Injuries, Biomechanics, Cohort Studies, Electromyography, Female, Hip Joint, Humans, Knee Joint, Muscle, Skeletal, Physical Education and Training, Range of Motion, Articular, Soccer, Sports",
author = "Zebis, {Mette K} and Jesper Bencke and Andersen, {Lars L} and Simon D{\o}ssing and Tine Alkjaer and Magnusson, {S Peter} and Michael Kjaer and Per Aagaard",
year = "2008",
doi = "10.1097/JSM.0b013e31817f3e35",
language = "English",
volume = "18",
pages = "329--37",
journal = "Clinical journal of sport medicine : official journal of the Canadian Academy of Sport Medicine",
issn = "1536-3724",
publisher = "Lippincott Williams and Wilkins",
number = "4",
}