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Tackling An Alarming Trend: The Increasing Number of Female Knee Injuries

 

30,000 high school and college-age females will injure their knee this year

Look across any high school soccer field or basketball court and you will see something you never would have seen 25 years ago. It's not the uniforms or the type of ball; it's whose playing - young girls. Today, a generation after a federal mandate was enacted to provide gender equality in sports, that mandate has
created a new problem.

 

Where a parent's primary concern was with their son being injured playing sports, now we're learning it's their daughters that are most at risk.

If you are a female or have a daughter who plays sports, you should be aware of an alarming statistic - 30,000 high school and college -age females will injure their knee this year. That is occurring at a rate five times more often than it occurs in males. It is a phenomenon that began because of the federally mandated Title IX in the 1970's requiring schools and universities to give equal time and funding to female sports programs. "The increase in participation in women's sports was phenomenal and, unfortunately, so was the number of knee injuries", said Sue Barber-Westin, BS, Director of Clinical and Applied Research at Cincinnati Sports-medicine Research and Education Foundation.

Experts around the world are watching Cincinnati Sports-medicine Research and Education Foundation's pioneering research to answer the question, "Why?" Frank Noyes, MD was one of the first doctors in the country to recognize the disproportionate number of females than males tearing their anterior cruciate ligament, ACL.

 "Dr. Noyes has been the driving force behind our investigation into the high number of female knee injuries," said Barber-Westin. "Many years ago he noticed he was seeing more female knee patients than male knee patients. It was his original idea. He was ahead of his time."

Why are these injuries occurring? 
Cincinnati Sports-medicine is making this issue a priority by focusing its research on two key area: why are these injuries occur and how to prevent them.  Frank R. Noyes, MD and researchers have observed differences between males and females that affect jumping and landing. They have noticed that there is a marked imbalance of strength and power between hamstrings (back of the upper leg) and quadriceps (front of the upper legs) in female athletes.

The relative power of hamstrings compared to the quadriceps in females is less than 50 percent. Males have an average hamstrings-to-quadriceps ratio of nearly 70 percent.

 

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