DESIGN OF AN ACL TEAR REPRESSION, RECONSTRUCTION, AND ...

DESIGN OF AN ACL TEAR REPRESSION, RECONSTRUCTION, AND REHABILITATION SYSTEM

AMR ATTYAH, MARIBETH BURNS, SAM MILLER, ANDREW TESNOW SENIOR DESIGN SYST 490 - 001

AMR ATTYAH, MARIBETH BURNS, SAM MILLER, ANDREW TESNOW SENIOR DESIGN SYST 490 - 001

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CONTEXT ANALYSIS

AMR ATTYAH, MARIBETH BURNS, SAM MILLER, ANDREW TESNOW SENIOR DESIGN SYST 490 - 001

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OVERALL PARTICIPATION IN NCAA SPORTS

500,000 450,000 400,000 350,000 300,000 250,000 200,000 150,000 100,000 50,000

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Participation in NCAA Sports Division I, II, and III

? Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 ? 29,977 in 1972 ? 191,131 in 2011 ? 638% increase

? Females are 2-8 times more likely to tear their ACL than Males

Men

Women

Combined

NCAA

AMR ATTYAH, MARIBETH BURNS, SAM MILLER, ANDREW TESNOW SENIOR DESIGN SYST 490 - 001

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DEFINITIONS

? ACL ? Anterior Cruciate Ligament ? ACLI ? Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injury ? Repression ? the attempted prevention of an ACLI ? Reconstruction ? the surgical process to repair an ACLI ? Rehabilitation ? the process of returning to previous level of athletic effort ? BTB ? Bone tendon bone ? BTL - Bone tendon ligament ? Valgus ?knees coming together during athletic movement ? Quad Dominance ? using quadriceps to absorb all the shock ? Q- angle ? the angle between hip and the knee

AMR ATTYAH, MARIBETH BURNS, SAM MILLER, ANDREW TESNOW SENIOR DESIGN SYST 490 - 001

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THE "KNEE SYSTEM"

Wikipedia

OhioDance Back View of the Knee

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