GENDER BIAS IN ACL INJURY

sured during a closed kinetic-chain movement indicated a decreased ability for the female musculature to counteract delete- rious forces in the knee. A single study has implicated fluctuating levels of active stiffness across the menstrual cycle for the higher rates of ACL injuries at the time of ovulation. It is hoped that ongo- ing research will clarify whether oestrogen supplementation in the form of the female contraceptive pill can regulate active muscle stiffness across the menstrual cycle.

THE AUTHORS Dr Adam Bryant, BHMSc (Hon), is a lecturer within the School of Physiotherapy at the University of Melbourne, Australia having com- pleted his PhD in the area of neuromuscular adaptations following ACL injury and reconstruction. His research has examined changes in the mechanical properties of skeletal muscle across the menstru- al cycle. and he is currently working on the development of footwear to compensate for the changes in musculotendinous stiffness across the menstrual cycle. Adam has won a number of major awards including Best Young Investigator (2004 Australian Sports Medicine Conference) and the 2005 Victorian Minister for Sport and Recreation, Research Excellence Award.

Associate Professor Erik Hohman is an orthopaedic surgeon who trained as an undergraduate in Germany and as a postgraduate at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. He completed a Fellowship in Orthopaedic Sports Medicine at the Department of Orthopaedic Sports Medicine at the University of Technology, Munich, Germany and since 2002 has been staff orthopaedic surgeon at Rockhampton Hospital and appointed as a

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