Lower extremity muscle strength, postural stability and functional movement screen in female basketball players after ACL reconstruction. Preliminary report.

Purpose: The anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) tear is a common injury in basketball. Its consequence is a long absence from training, being a consequence of surgical treatment and long physiotherapy. The aim of the study was to assess muscle strength, postural stability and functional movements in female basketball players, who returned to professional sport careers after anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction.

Shoulder proprioception - lessons we learned from idiopathic frozen shoulder.

Background: Of all the most frequent soft tissue disorders of the shoulder, idiopathic frozen shoulder (IFS) offers the greatest potential for studying proprioception. Studies concerning the presence of proprioception dysfunctions have failed to determine the potential for spontaneous healing of passive shoulder stabilizers (anterior and posterior capsule, middle and inferior gleno-humeral ligaments), its relationship with passive (PJPS) and active (AJPS) shoulder proprioception for internal and external rotation (IR, ER), as well as the isokinetic muscle performance of the internal and external rotators. This study investigates these dependencies in the case of arthroscopic release of IFS.