POTENTIAL MECHANISM OF INJURY CAUSING ACL IMPAIRMENT.
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Key words: Potential Mechanism, Injury, ACL ImpairmentAbstract
Introduction: The anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) in an intra-articular ligament, it plays important role in stability of knee joint Objective: find out exact mechanism of ACL injury. Materials and Methods: This prospective observational study was carried out at orthopaedic department of Liaquat National Hospital and Medical College, Karachi from JAN 2017 to DEC 2019. Results: All the patients were followed in outpatient department. Total of 180 patients were included in the study (145 were males and 35 were females). There were two major group of patients (1) those had non-conatct ACL inuries , (2) who had contact ACL injuries.Cases who had (non-contact) twisting injuries were 108(60%), (contact) road traffic accidents were 28(16%),direct blow to the knee were 25(14%) and injury after high jump were 19(10%). Conclusion: We found that most common mechanism of injury in non-contact ACL injury is twisting injury.