Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries are common in adolescent female athletes and impact long-term health. There are several modifiable kinematic biomechanical risk factors of injury consolidated in the kinematic ACL Injury Resilience (kAIR) score, which characterizes an athlete's movement across a set of common injury screening tasks.
ORIGINAL PAPER
Validating OpenCap Kinematics for ACL Injury-Related Movements In and Out of the Lab
WHAT WE KNOW
Accessible and portable biomechanics tools, like the smartphone-based OpenCap software, could rapidly measure these risk factors outside of a laboratory. Here, we aimed to assess OpenCap's accuracy relative to marker-based optical motion capture (MoCap) in measuring the kAIR score, along with the 3D joint kinematics during the screening tasks used to compute the score. Female athletes (n=26; age: 15.
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