RT journal article
T1 The Incidence of Sport-Related Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injuries: An Overview of Systematic Reviews Including 51 Meta-Analyses
A1 Martínez Calderón, Javier
A1 Infante Cano, Marta
A1 Matías Soto, Javier
A1 Pérez Cabezas, Verónica
A1 Galán Mercant, Alejandro
A1 García Muñoz, Cristina
A2 Enfermería y Fisioterapia
K1 ACL
K1 incidence
K1 injury
K1 overview
K1 review
K1 sports
AB Background/Objectives: The number of systematic reviews evaluating theincidence of anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries in sports is increasing. To synthesizepooled incidence and prevalence rates of sport-related ACL injuries based on publishedsystematic reviews with meta-analyses. Methods: An overview of systematic reviewswith meta-analysis was conducted. The CINAHL, Embase, PubMed, and SPORTDiscusdatabases were searched from inception to 17 October 2023. AMSTAR 2 was used toassess the methodological quality of reviews. The degree of overlap between reviews wascalculated when possible. Results: Seven systematic reviews including 51 meta-analysesof interest were included. The prevalence of ACL injuries was not meta-analyzed. Metaanalyses mainly showed that ACL injuries may have a high incidence in American football,basketball, European football/soccer, and volleyball, among other sports. In addition, ACLinjuries may have a higher incidence in females than males in some sports. For example, thepooled incidence rates of ACL injuries in basketball ranged from 0.091 (95%CI, 0.074–0.111)to 0.110 (95%CI, 0.094–0.128) among female athletes, whereas this incidence ranged from0.024 (95%CI, 0.016–0.034) to 0.027 (95%CI, 0.019–0.035) among male athletes. Conclusions:Sport-related ACL injuries may have a high incidence in sports such as American football,basketball, European football/soccer, or volleyball and show differences between sexes.Therefore, a sex-specific prevention of these injuries may be needed.
PB MDPI
SN 2411-5142
YR 2025
FD 2025-05
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10498/38040
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10498/38040
LA eng
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Cádiz
RD 09-nov-2026