ProActive SportsMed has developed an ACL Risk Reduction program for high school female athletes in the Olympia, Tumwater, and Lacey area.  Female athletes who participate in cutting and jumping sports are 5 times more likely to suffer a knee injury than a male athlete.

We developed our program to identify higher risk athletes, work on risk factors we have the ability to impact, and decrease the incidence of ACL injuries in our area.  All of our data is additionaly being used in a long term study to identify risk factors and evaluate the risk reduction intervention.

Our ACL program consists of three stages.  The first stage is Risk Assessment Testing.  We have designed a compellation of assessment tools to evaluate a variety of risk factors.  Our testing uses hands-on therapist evaluation and sport activities recorded and evaluated on our video analysis software.

The second stage of the Risk Reduction program is training.  Our program offers an individualized home program based on the individual athletes risks and the opportunity to participate in a complimentary 6 week training program with our performance training staff targeting risk factors and technique for higher risk athletes.

The final stage to the Risk Reduction program is post-testing.  The athletes will be given the same compellation of tests as done in the risk assessment testing after their sport season.  Our goal is to evaluate any injuries obtained during the season, evaluate any change to risk factors seen through assessment tools, and evaluate effectiveness of the second stage of the program.