Non-Contact ACL Injuries
 The American Orthopaedic Society For Sports Medicine is funding a multi-center research project on non-contact ACL injuries as part of its contribution to the Bone and Joint Decade.
Non-contact ACL injuries are a mjor concern within orthopaedic sports medicine, and the Society has earmarked up to $250,000 in support of research projects that focus specifically on neuromuscular and biomechanical factors in the genesis and prevention of non-contact ACL injuries.
In awarding its first grant, the Society ran a workshop to review a broad range of proposals and used a competitive grants evaluation process. It subsequently presented the award to a collaborative comprehensive proposal, that resulted from the workshop, from North Carolina University, US Naval Academy, Boston University and the Orthopaedics Center of Rockville, MD, for a multi-center study on Epidemiology of Jump-Landing Movements and ACL Injury.
For more information contact the Society at 847-292-4900.
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