ACL Project Prevent Update

The first edition of the ACL Project Prevent newsletter was released this month.

The 3-year ACL Project Prevent study funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has one main objective: to identify gender specific movement patterns that may predispose female athletes to anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries during sport activities. Secondly, this study will evaluate the effects of an injury prevention program on altering potentially injurious lower extremity mechanics.

This project represents a collaborative effort between several institutions including the University of Southern California (Departments of Biokinesiology & Physical Therapy and Preventive Medicine); University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Department of Epidemiology); Santa Monica Orthopaedic Group (Santa Monica , CA); and the Competitive Athlete Training Zone (Pasadena , CA).

If you have specific questions about this study, please contact Dr. Christopher Powers at or go to http://www.usc.edu/ACLprojectprevent.