The Effect of an In-Season Knee Injury Prevention Program on Lower Extremity Injury Risk Factors on Collegiate Women's Basketball Players

Abstract

OBJECTIVE One of the highest intensity sports that is being played every day throughout the world is basketball. Not only is the popularity of basketball increasing, so is the intensity at which the sport is being played. (Bird et al, 2016). High participation rates in basketball have led to a large number of injuries, especially considering that basketball poses one of the highest risks of injury in team sports. Basketball injury rates have been reported to be between 7 and 10 injuries per 1000 athletic exposures (Taylor et al, 2015). The Prevent Injury, Enhance Performance (PEP) program is a dynamic warm-up program that has been utilized in a variety of sports with the proposed benefits of reducing lower extremity injuries (Pollard et al, 2017). There have been a variety of risk factors that have been linked to lower extremity injuries and health professionals have been increasingly interested in screening for those risk factors. The Landing Error Scoring System (LESS) was developed