Higher risk of ACL rupture in amateur football compared to professional football: 5-year results of the ‘Anterior cruciate ligament-registry in German football’

URN to cite this document:: urn:nbn:de:bvb:355-epub-493181
DOI to cite this document:: 10.5283/epub.49318

Szymski, Dominik

; Achenbach, Leonard

; Zellner, Johannes ; Weber, Johannes ; Koch, Matthias ; Zeman, Florian ; Huppertz, Gunnar ; Pfeifer, Christian ; Alt, Volker ; Krutsch, Werner

Preview

License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
PDF - Published Version
(933kB)

Date of publication of this fulltext: 12 Oct 2021 05:27

Alternative links to fulltext:DOI Publisher

This publication is part of the DEAL contract with Springer.

Details

Preview

Indexed in

Export bibliographical data

Abstract

Purpose Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries are a common severe type of football injury at all levels of play. A football-specific ACL registry providing both prospective ACL injury data according to the skill level and risk factors for ACL injury is lacking in the literature. Methods This study is based on the prospective 'ACL registry in German Football' implemented in the 2014-15 season. ...