Society guideline links: Anterior cruciate ligament injury

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International

●Panther Symposium ACL Consensus Meeting: Consensus statement on treatment after ACL injury (2021)

●Panther Symposium ACL Consensus Meeting: Consensus statement on clinical outcomes after anterior cruciate ligament injury (2020)

●Panther Symposium ACL Consensus Meeting: Consensus statement on return to sport after anterior cruciate ligament injury (2020)

●International Olympic Committee (IOC): Consensus statement on prevention, diagnosis and management of paediatric anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries (2018)

●IOC: Consensus statement on non-contact ACL injury in the female athlete (2008)

Canada

●Canadian Academy of Sport and Exercise Medicine (CASEM): Position statement – Neuromuscular training programs can decrease anterior cruciate ligament injuries in youth soccer players (2014)

United States

●Academy of Orthopaedic Physical Therapy (AOPT) and American Academy of Sports Physical Therapy (AASPT): Exercise-based knee and anterior cruciate ligament injury prevention – Clinical practice guidelines linked to the international classification of functioning, disability and health (2023)

●Anterior Cruciate Ligament Research Retreat VIII: Summary statement – An update on injury risk identification and prevention across the anterior cruciate ligament injury continuum (2019)

●AOPT and AASPT: Clinical practice guidelines on exercise-based knee and anterior cruciate ligament injury prevention (2018)

●National Athletic Trainers' Association (NATA): Position statement – Prevention of anterior cruciate ligament injury (2018)

●American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS): Anterior cruciate ligament injury prevention programs – Appropriate user criteria (2015)

●AAOS: Treatment of anterior cruciate ligament injuries – Appropriate use criteria (2015)

●AAOS: Management of anterior cruciate ligament injuries – Evidence-based clinical practice guideline (2014)

Japan

●[In English] Japanese Orthopedic Association (JOA) and Japan Orthopaedic Society of Knee, Arthroscopy and Sports Medicine (JOSKAS): Clinical practice guidelines on the management of anterior cruciate ligament injury – Secondary publication (2020)

●[In Japanese] JOA and JOSKAS: Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury practice guidelines, 3rd edition (2019)