Understanding and Preventing Noncontact ACL Injuries PDF

Description Table of Contents Editor Understanding and Preventing Noncontact ACL Injuries is also available as an e-book. The e-book is available at a reduced price and allows readers to highlight and take notes throughout the text. When purchased through the Human Kinetics site, access to the e-book is immediately granted when the order is received. With more than 200,000 athletes each year suffering noncontact injury to the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) of the knee, there is finally an up-to-date reference for professionals whose work involves developing and implementing programs to prevent such injuries. Understanding and Preventing Noncontact ACL Injuries provides an authoritative description of the biomechanical, clinical, and injury factors pertinent to the athletes—primarily girls and young women—who experience this problem.     To help readers understand how to incorporate targeted interventions, the book uses a preventive rather than strictly clinical approach to A