RESEARCH - Women's knee joints affected by hormone cycle

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Women's Knee Joints Affected By Hormone Cycle

MedicalNewsToday.com

Article Date: 20 Apr 2009 - 0:00 PDT

New research from the Faculty of Kinesiology at the University of

Calgary has found a connection between the laxity of a woman's knee

joint and her monthly hormone cycle.

The research project - a collaboration between kinesiology,

engineering and health sciences researchers - has found that not all

woman experience knee laxity at the same time of their menstrual

cycle. The researchers speculate that this is likely why previous

research in the area has largely discounted a connection between the

hormone cycle and knee injury.

In a series of recent papers published in the British Journal of

Sports Medicine and The American Journal of Sports Medicine the

researchers noted that while 14 of 26 subjects exhibited the greatest

amount of knee laxity during the ovulation phase, 10 others had the

greatest laxity during the follicular phase and 2 subjects during the

luteal phase.

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