Helping Incorporate Research and Manual Techniques into your Massage Therapy Practice! Restricted Hip Rotation Is Correlated With an Increased Risk for Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injury. The primary purpose was to compare ipsilateral hip internal rotation (IR) in male and female athletes with or without an anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) … [Read more...]
Ligament injury/deficiency and CNS Plasticity!
Anterior cruciate ligament deficiency causes brain plasticity: a functional MRI study. Abstract BACKGROUND: The mechanoreceptors located in anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) constitute an afferent source of information toward the central nervous system. It has been proposed that ACL deficiency causes a disturbance in neuromuscular control, … [Read more...]