I-P037
APPLICATION OF NEUROMUSCULAR TRAINING PROGRAM
FOR ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT INJURIES
PREVENTION IN FEMALE ATHLETES
Mo-Chia Huang1, Wei-Syuan Huang1, Szu-Ying Lee1, Hsin-Jung Yang1, Wen-Dien Chang1, Shu-Ya Chen2, Ping-Tung Lai3*
1
Department of Sports Medicine, China Medical University,Taichung City, Taiwan
2
Department of Physical Therapy, China Medical University,Taichung City, Taiwan
3
Department of Rehabilitation, Da Chien general hospital, Miao Li City, Taiwan
ABSTRACT
Background and Purpose: Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries are common in sports, and need high cost-effective surgeries to repair ACL. Because of gender
differences, female have higher risk than male, and athletes’ sports performances
were influenced. Neuromuscular training (NMT) is a skill which teaches the athlete’s
conscious control of movements to improve their knee stability and to prevent ACL
injuries. Many kinds of NMT are used in athlete’s training, but the incidences are rare
to study. So, we used a literature review to explore theġapplication of NMT for ACL injuryġprevention.
Materials/Methods: EBSCOhost and PubMed were used to search literatures, which were published from 1995 to 2009. We used the key words, knee injuries, ACL injures prevention, and NMT, to search. Included criteria were that subjects were female athletes in high-risk sports, NMT was intervened, and outcome measure had an incidence rate. We compared the NMT, assessment and outcome in the searched literatures.
Results: 4 literatures were collected and used 4 sets of NMT. The jump, strengthening, plyometric, and balance exercises were used during the training sessions. In the results of all studies, decreasing incidence rates of ACL injury were found in follow-up. Comparing pre- and post-training, statistically significant differences in incidence rates were found in jump exercise, and compound training program (strengthening and plyometric exercises). Compound training program (jump and balance exercises) had a minimal incidence rate.
Conclusions and Clinical Relevance: It is possible to prevent ACL injuries with specific NMT, and compound training program is suggested.
