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Adolescent girls playing soccer in Sweden had drastically fewer anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) tears when they had at least one 15-minute warmup session each week, a researcher said here.
In a randomized trial involving some 4,500 members of girls soccer teams, the group assigned to perform the neuromuscular exercise sessions had 64% fewer ACL tears than the control participants (HR 0.36, 95% CI 0.15 to 0.85), reported Markus Walden, MD, PhD, of Linköping University in Kristianstad, Sweden.
Speaking at the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons annual meeting, Walden added that, when the analysis was restricted to the players who had at least one warmup session each week, the reduction in ACL tears reached 83% (HR 0.17, 95% CI 0.05 to 0.57).
Walden said he and his colleagues believe the study was "the largest sports injury prevention trial in the world." The results essentially confirmed those of several previous, smaller studies, including some randomized trials.
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