How urgent is your knee problem?

admin — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 07:50:40 -0700

Common types of knee injury

admin — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 07:42:52 -0700

Symptoms associated with patellofemoral pain

admin — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 02:10:13 -0800

Preventing soccer knee injury

admin — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 11:22:49 -0700

Most of the world’s football is played at amateur and community level, where there is often little professional attention paid to muscle balance, power and conditioning. The majority of soccer injuries are to the lower limb, especially the knee and ankle. Most knee injuries occur in young people - eighty-five percent of injuries occur in players under 23 and half of these affect children under 15. So over 40% of soccer knee injuries occur in children under 15!

Women soccer players, too, are at particular risk, with an injury rate twice that of men.