Publications by authors named "Andrew Esteban Jimenez"
Article Synopsis
- The study looks at kids who hurt their ACLs (a ligament in the knee) to see how many had bone bruises and where those bruises were located.
- It focuses on comparing injuries that happened from contact (like a tackle) versus non-contact (like twisting the knee).
- The researchers reviewed MRIs from 109 kids, finding that most had non-contact injuries, but there were no major differences in age or other injury details between the two groups.
The incidence of anterior cruciate ligament injury in youth and male soccer athletes: an evaluation of 17,108 players over two consecutive seasons with an age-based sub-analysis.
Knee Surg Sports Traumatol Arthrosc
July 2023
Purpose: To evaluate the incidence of anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries in male athletes from professional soccer clubs over two consecutive seasons (2018-2019) with a sub-analysis based on age category: under-13 (U-13), under-15 (U-15), under-17 (U-17), and under-20 (U-20) years.
Methods: A total of 17,108 young male soccer players were retrospectively reviewed from sixty-three professional clubs in the four highest Brazilian soccer divisions. Data regarding the number of athletes and the number of ACL injuries confirmed by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) exams in the 2018 and 2019 seasons were collected.
Tendon grafts with preserved muscle demonstrate similar biomechanical properties to tendon grafts stripped of muscular attachments: a biomechanical evaluation in a porcine model.
J Exp Orthop
August 2021
Purpose: (1) To evaluate the biomechanical properties of a porcine flexor digitorum superficialis tendon graft with preserved muscle fibers and (2) to compare these results with the biomechanical properties of a porcine tendon graft after removal of associated muscle.
Methods: Eighty-two porcine forelegs were dissected and the flexor digitorum superficialis muscle tendons were harvested. The study comprised of two groups: Group 1 (G1), harvested tendon with preserved muscle tissue; and Group 2 (G2), harvested contralateral tendon with removal of all muscle tissue.