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wildnkrazykat said:
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ACL's. Are we, or you, seeing more ACL injuries in the past 5-6 years or so? Or, does it just seem that way to me because of all the info overload and more access to info on the internet? If, they are on the increase, what is your opinion of why that is? Strength and training, technique, etc.? I've been reading a lot about them recently and the some of the info indicates female athletes are at a much higher risk. Not sure if that is due to sports played, strength and conditioning, body build, etc. What are your thoughts from the inside of what you've been doing for a long time?
 
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Slydell said:
Doing well, Indi. How're you? I still need to catch up and reread what we were into the other night. I should download it to my Kindle and take it camping this week. I'll probably just buy beer instead.
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haha i'd go with the beer for sure. I'm doing alright. ready for the weekend and it's only monday... :shakehead:
 
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7thgroupvolfan said:
Always headed out somewhere soon, slydog.
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I was reading something the other day and started thinking about the difference in today's combat ready and the days of my youth. It was about what a reg carries into combat and the weight of each piece. Lotta troops going into Nam were loaded with 70-80 pounds of gear. Hi Tech stuff now is probably much less, I'm thinking.
 
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i'm kinda superstitious lol. i think things happen in cycles. you could have a few years where in a whole ath. dept you have maybe 3 acl tears, and then you cycle through a few years where it seems like you're having that many in each sport that season.

i'll be the first to say that in the last 3 years i've not kept up on current trends/research as much as i should, just due to the schedule i've kept.

some acl tears are just a freak accident - w/out knowing JH's history anymore than I do i'd classify his in that manner. he was doing something he did everyday and this time just landed wrong for whatever reason and it happened --- i'd classify almost all non-contact acl tears this way

another thing is athletes are bigger/faster/stronger, and their muscles are more hypertrophic than they have ever been. ligaments size and tensile strength are pretty much predetermined and an overload on that ligament structure due to the amount of power that the muscles can produce can contribute in my opinion

i'd feel comfortable saying that yes females are at a higher risk. a number of things go into that. my personal, and slightly old fashioned, take is that biologically women's bodies weren't meant to handle the demands that competitive athletics put on the body. in middle/high school many times their isn't a base strength in place and in college athletics the demands are at the same level as on their male counterparts.
The Q-angle in women is greater than men, due to the fact that we have wider hips and this has been thought to cause some additional joint stress in women and many in research or who have been injured believe (including a few of my athletes/former athletes) that the female hormonal cycle can influence, possibly, the tensile strength of the ligament at certain points in the cycle

weak coreand especially hip strength is also a risk factor in both m/f acl tears.

i know it's not a lot to help, but my brain is kinda frazzled
 
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Slydell said:
I was reading something the other day and started thinking about the difference in today's combat ready and the days of my youth. It was about what a reg carries into combat and the weight of each piece. Lotta troops going into Nam were loaded with 70-80 pounds of gear. Hi Tech stuff now is probably much less, I'm thinking.
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Not for us brother. When you don't roll deep. Fire power is your friend.
 
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wildnkrazykat said:
i'm kinda superstitious lol. i think things happen in cycles. you could have a few years where in a whole ath. dept you have maybe 3 acl tears, and then you cycle through a few years where it seems like you're having that many in each sport that season.

i'll be the first to say that in the last 3 years i've not kept up on current trends/research as much as i should, just due to the schedule i've kept.

some acl tears are just a freak accident - w/out knowing JH's history anymore than I do i'd classify his in that manner. he was doing something he did everyday and this time just landed wrong for whatever reason and it happened --- i'd classify almost all non-contact acl tears this way

another thing is athletes are bigger/faster/stronger, and their muscles are more hypertrophic than they have ever been. ligaments size and tensile strength are pretty much predetermined and an overload on that ligament structure due to the amount of power that the muscles can produce can contribute in my opinion

i'd feel comfortable saying that yes females are at a higher risk. a number of things go into that. my personal, and slightly old fashioned, take is that biologically women's bodies weren't meant to handle the demands that competitive athletics put on the body. in middle/high school many times their isn't a base strength in place and in college athletics the demands are at the same level as on their male counterparts.
The Q-angle in women is greater than men, due to the fact that we have wider hips and this has been thought to cause some additional joint stress in women and many in research or who have been injured believe (including a few of my athletes/former athletes) that the female hormonal cycle can influence, possibly, the tensile strength of the ligament at certain points in the cycle

weak coreand especially hip strength is also a risk factor in both m/f acl tears.

i know it's not a lot to help, but my brain is kinda frazzled
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cliffs....
 
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