Mitchell G A Wheatley, Andrew D Pearle, David Z Shamritsky, Jacob M Hirth, Danyal H Nawabi, Thomas L Wickiewicz, Bruce D Beynnon, Carl W Imhauser
Young female athletes participating in sports requiring rapid changes of direction are at heightened risk of suffering traumatic knee injury, especially noncontact rupture of the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL). Clinical studies have revealed that geometric features of the tibiofemoral joint are associated with increased risk of suffering noncontact ACL injury. However, the relationship between three-dimensional (3D) tibiofemoral geometry and knee mechanics in young female athletes is not well understood. We developed a statistically augmented computational modeling workflow to determine relationships between 3D geometry of the knee and tibiofemoral kinematics and ACL force in response to an applied loading sequence of compression, valgus, and anterior force, which is known to load the ACL...
March 14, 2024: Journal of Biomechanics