Abstract
Prevalence of Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injury and other Ligament Injuries among the Saudi Community in Jeddah City, Saudi Arabia
Highlights
The Anterior Cruciate ligament (ACL) which is located in the knee is the most common injured ligament and its reconstruction is a regularly preformed orthopedicCitation: Dafalla SE, Bokhari YA, Yazbik RS, Ali AS, Sheikh KH, et al (2020) Prevalence of Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injury and other Ligament Injuries among the Saudi Community in Jeddah City, Saudi Arabia
The criterion that is included in the questionnaire are age, gender, nationality, whether sports was practiced and key questions that revolves about injury to the knee ligaments such as previous tear in the ligaments of the knee, which ligament was injured; Anterior cruciate Ligament (ACL), Posterior Cruciate Ligament (PCL), Medial Collateral Ligament (MCL), and Lateral Collateral Ligament (LCL)
The question was to know what type of Knee ligament was injured and the results revealed that the percentage of Anterior Cruciate Ligament injuries was (55.4%) and (8.1%) for the posterior cruciate ligament injuries, in addition to that the percentage of medial collateral ligament injuries have existed at (27.0%) and the lateral collateral ligament injuries have existed at (9.5%)
Summary
The Anterior Cruciate ligament (ACL) which is located in the knee is the most common injured ligament and its reconstruction is a regularly preformed orthopedic. Our aim in this research is to provide descriptive epidemiological data; study the prevalence as well gain knowledge of the management of the Anterior Cruciate Ligament and other knee ligament injuries among Saudi community in Jeddah City, Saudi Arabia. ACL is the most common injured ligament and it is important for stabilization of the knee It is commonly injured especially in sports as a consequence, knee function and participation in physical activities will be limited. Our objective is to provide descriptive epidemiological data; study the prevalence as well as provide knowledge of the management of the anterior cruciate ligament injury and other knee ligament injury among Saudi community in Jeddah City, Saudi Arabia
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