Annotated Bibliography Kinesiology
Topic: Do knee braces help or hinder in the recovery process of ACL surgery?
References
Birmingham, T. B., Bryant, D. M., Giffin, J. R., Litchfield, R. B., Kramer, J. F.,
Donner, A., & Fowier, P. J. (2008). A Randomized Controlled Trial Comparing the Effectiveness of Functional Knee Brace and Neoprene Sleeve Use After Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction. American Journal Of Sports Medicine, 36(4), 648-655.
This article would be helpful for a paper on this topic. In summation, the article speaks about a test of 150 people in which they had either received a functional ACL brace or a neoprene sleeve 6-weeks post operation and were tested a few times in the next 1-2 years. The tests involved subjective questions for the subject, measurements, and functional analysis. Through these tests, this article results showed how the knee brace and neoprene sleeve are both helpful, even though they have no superior rating over each other. Also, the testers do not support the recommendation of using a functional ACL brace after surgery from the data that they collected. Most of this article is objective, but some of their own input is placed in the conclusion when they do not recommend the brace. The information that they had gathered is reliable, but they did not test it against those who did not use ACL braces at all so that is what is not helpful for my paper.
Davis, A. G., Pietrosimone, B. G., Ingersoll, C. D., Pugh, K., & Hart, J. M. (2011).
Quadriceps Function After Exercise in Patients with Anterior Cruciate Ligament–Reconstructed Knees Wearing Knee Braces. Journal of Athletic Training, 46(6), 615–620.
The information in this article states that wearing a neoprene sleeve or a knee sleeve neither helped nor hurt quadriceps muscle function in aerobic exercises. In this experiment, there were 14 people who participated (9 women and 5 men) in three sessions in which they were measured based on central activation ratio and voluntary isometric torque. They
References
Birmingham, T. B., Bryant, D. M., Giffin, J. R., Litchfield, R. B., Kramer, J. F.,
Donner, A., & Fowier, P. J. (2008). A Randomized Controlled Trial Comparing the Effectiveness of Functional Knee Brace and Neoprene Sleeve Use After Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction. American Journal Of Sports Medicine, 36(4), 648-655.
This article would be helpful for a paper on this topic. In summation, the article speaks about a test of 150 people in which they had either received a functional ACL brace or a neoprene sleeve 6-weeks post operation and were tested a few times in the next 1-2 years. The tests involved subjective questions for the subject, measurements, and functional analysis. Through these tests, this article results showed how the knee brace and neoprene sleeve are both helpful, even though they have no superior rating over each other. Also, the testers do not support the recommendation of using a functional ACL brace after surgery from the data that they collected. Most of this article is objective, but some of their own input is placed in the conclusion when they do not recommend the brace. The information that they had gathered is reliable, but they did not test it against those who did not use ACL braces at all so that is what is not helpful for my paper.
Davis, A. G., Pietrosimone, B. G., Ingersoll, C. D., Pugh, K., & Hart, J. M. (2011).
Quadriceps Function After Exercise in Patients with Anterior Cruciate Ligament–Reconstructed Knees Wearing Knee Braces. Journal of Athletic Training, 46(6), 615–620.
The information in this article states that wearing a neoprene sleeve or a knee sleeve neither helped nor hurt quadriceps muscle function in aerobic exercises. In this experiment, there were 14 people who participated (9 women and 5 men) in three sessions in which they were measured based on central activation ratio and voluntary isometric torque. They
References: Davis, A. G., Pietrosimone, B. G., Ingersoll, C. D., Pugh, K., & Hart, J. M. (2011). Quadriceps Function After Exercise in Patients with Anterior Cruciate Ligament–Reconstructed Knees Wearing Knee Braces