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Current Understandings and Directions for Future Research

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This chapter summarizes the findings and discussion focused on ACL risk factors, screening, and injury prevention from the 2015 ACL Research Retreat. Risk factors include neuromuscular, anatomical, structural, genetic, and hormonal. For each risk factor, the current understandings, key unknowns, and directions for future research are described. In addition, risk factor screening and injury prevention are discussed in a similar manner. A consensus statement was devised that reflects the most recent advances in this field.

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