Neuromuscular Electrical Stimulation to Preserve Quadriceps Muscle Fiber Size and Contractility After Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injuries and Reconstruction

Neuromuscular Electrical Stimulation to Preserve Quadriceps Muscle Fiber Size and Contractility After Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injuries and Reconstruction

Neuromuscular Electrical Stimulation to Preserve Quadriceps Muscle Fiber Size and Contractility After Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injuries and Reconstruction
Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries are a common sports injury. They occur when the ligament connecting the thighbone to the knee joint tears. ACL injuries are often caused by a direct blow or by a sudden twisting motion with the knee joint. Most ACL injuries occur during sports, but the ligaments are also damaged in other situations such as a fall or a jump. After an ACL injury, patients have difficulty walking normally without pain. Many treatments exist for ACL injuries, but none have been proven to be effective. Therefore, it`s important to study new treatments that can help improve the quality of life for ACL injury victims.

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1. Your introduction should start with an attention-getting question, quotation or pithy observation instead of a bland or purely factual statement. For instance, you could describe the setting where you might encounter someone dealing with an ACL injury: 'The soccer field was silent as the player lay on the ground, clutching her knee. She had just suffered an anterior cruciate ligament injury, and was in desperate need of a treatment that would help her return to the game she loved.' You could then move on to discuss the various treatments available for ACL injuries.

2. Your thesis should be more specific and concise. Instead of 'many treatments exist for ACL injuries, but none have been proven to be effective,' you could say something like, "Neuromuscular electrical stimulation offers a promising treatment for ACL injuries, as it has been shown to preserve quadriceps muscle fiber size and contractility"

.3. Watch your spelling and punctuation, please correct these words to be "cruciate" and "victims".

1. To be idiomatically correct, "connecting" should be "connects"

After an ACL injury, patients experience severe pain and instability in their knee joint. In addition, their quadriceps muscles become weak and cannot support their lower body weight. Patients also experience muscle spasms in their quadriceps muscles after an ACL injury. Most people recover from an ACL injury with just physical therapy; however, some people have persistent muscle aches and pains after an ACL tear. Researchers have hypothesized that early neuromuscular electrical stimulation use can help to prevent maladaptations after an ACL reconstruction.

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1. This paragraph could benefit from the addition of at least one more supporting sentence.

2. The sentence “Most people recover from an ACL injury with just physical therapy” is not supported.

3. Please note that the word “maladaptations” is jargon.

4. The main idea is not restated in the paragraph’s closing sentence.

5. Wrong word: “spasms” should be “spasticity”.