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Overview

Lynn Snyder-Mackler is affiliated with the University of Delaware in the United States. Their research is primarily situated within the field of Medicine, with significant contributions to Surgery, Orthopedics and Sports Medicine, Biomedical Engineering, Rheumatology, and Rehabilitation.

Their work extensively addresses topics related to knee injuries and reconstruction techniques, sports injuries and prevention, total knee arthroplasty outcomes, shoulder injury and treatment, muscle activation and electromyography studies, tendon structure and treatment, and osteoarthritis treatment and mechanisms.

Among their recent scholarly publications are the following:

  • "ACL Reconstruction Rehabilitation: Clinical Data, Biologic Healing, and Criterion-Based Milestones to Inform a Return-to-Sport Guideline," 2021, Sports Health A Multidisciplinary Approach
  • "Return to Sport After Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injury: Panther Symposium ACL Injury Return to Sport Consensus Group," 2020, Orthopaedic Journal of Sports Medicine
  • "Quadriceps Strength Symmetry Does Not Modify Gait Mechanics After Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction, Rehabilitation, and Return-to-Sport Training," 2020, The American Journal of Sports Medicine
  • "Activity and functional readiness, not age, are the critical factors for second anterior cruciate ligament injury - the Delaware-Oslo ACL cohort study," 2020, British Journal of Sports Medicine
  • "A Secondary Injury Prevention Program May Decrease Contralateral Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injuries in Female Athletes: 2-Year Injury Rates in the ACL-SPORTS Randomized Controlled Trial," 2020, Journal of Orthopaedic and Sports Physical Therapy

Lynn Snyder-Mackler has collaborated frequently with a number of co-authors including Thomas S. Buchanan, Karin Grävare Silbernagel, May Arna Risberg, Jacob J. Capin, and Elanna K. Arhos.

Their research appears regularly in established academic journals, with a significant number of publications appearing in:

  • Journal of Orthopaedic Research®
  • International Journal of Sports Physical Therapy
  • Journal of Orthopaedic and Sports Physical Therapy
  • The American Journal of Sports Medicine
  • Orthopaedic Journal of Sports Medicine

Best Publications

  • OARSI guidelines for the non-surgical management of knee, hip, and polyarticular osteoarthritis

    Raveendhara Bannuru;M. C. Osani;E. E. Vaysbrot;Nigel Arden;Nigel Arden

  • Simple decision rules can reduce reinjury risk by 84% after ACL reconstruction: the Delaware-Oslo ACL cohort study

    Hege Grindem;Lynn Snyder-Mackler;Håvard Moksnes;Lars Engebretsen

  • OARSI recommended performance-based tests to assess physical function in people diagnosed with hip or knee osteoarthritis

    Fiona Dobson;Rana Hinman;Ewa Roos;Ewa Roos;J Abbott

  • Development of a Patient-Reported Measure of Function of the Knee*

    James J. Irrgang;Lynn Snyder-Mackler;Robert S. Wainner;Freddie H. Fu

  • Quadriceps Strength and the Time Course of Functional Recovery After Total Knee Arthroplasty

    Ryan L. Mizner;Stephanie C. Petterson;Lynn Snyder-Mackler

  • The effect of insufficient quadriceps strength on gait after anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction.

    Michael Lewek;Katherine Rudolph;Michael Axe;Lynn Snyder-Mackler

  • Current Concepts for Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction: A Criterion–Based Rehabilitation Progression

    Douglas Adams;David S Logerstedt;Airelle Hunter-Giordano;Michael J Axe

  • Strength of the Quadriceps Femoris Muscle and Functional Recovery after Reconstruction of the Anterior Cruciate Ligament. A Prospective, Randomized Clinical Trial of Electrical Stimulation *

    Lynn Snyder-Mackler;Anthony Delitto;Sherri L. Bailey;Susan W. Stralka

  • Eccentric Muscle Contractions: Their Contribution to Injury, Prevention, Rehabilitation, and Sport

    Paul C. LaStayo;John M. Woolf;Michael D. Lewek;Lynn Snyder-Mackler

  • Early quadriceps strength loss after total knee arthroplasty. The contributions of muscle atrophy and failure of voluntary muscle activation.

    Ryan L Mizner;Stephanie C Petterson;Jennifer E Stevens;Krista Vandenborne

  • Dynamic stability in the anterior cruciate ligament deficient knee.

    Katherine S. Rudolph;Michael J. Axe;Thomas S. Buchanan;John P. Scholz

  • Quadriceps strength and volitional activation before and after total knee arthroplasty for osteoarthritis

    Jennifer E. Stevens;Ryan L. Mizner;Lynn Snyder-Mackler

  • Control of frontal plane knee laxity during gait in patients with medial compartment knee osteoarthritis

    Michael D. Lewek;Katherine S. Rudolph;Lynn Snyder-Mackler

  • Laxity, instability, and functional outcome after ACL injury: copers versus noncopers.

    Marty E. Eastlack;Michael J. Axe;Lynn Snyder-Mackler

  • Quadriceps Femoris Muscle Weakness and Activation Failure in Patients with Symptomatic Knee Osteoarthritis

    Michael D. Lewek;Katherine S. Rudolph;Lynn Snyder-Mackler

  • A decision-making scheme for returning patients to high-level activity with nonoperative treatment after anterior cruciate ligament rupture.

    G K Fitzgerald;M J Axe;L Snyder-Mackler

  • Dynamic stability after ACL injury: who can hop?

    K.S. Rudolph;M.J. Axe;L. Snyder-Mackler

  • Dynamic knee stability: current theory and implications for clinicians and scientists

    Glenn N. Williams;Terese Chmielewski;Katherine S. Rudolph;Thomas S. Buchanan

  • The Efficacy of Perturbation Training in Nonoperative Anterior Cruciate Ligament Rehabilitation Programs for Physically Active Individuals

    G Kelley Fitzgerald;Michael J Axe;Lynn Snyder-Mackler

  • Fate of the ACL-injured patient: a prospective outcome study

    L Snyder-Mackler

Frequent Co-Authors

Lars Engebretsen
Lars Engebretsen Oslo University Hospital
Kim L. Bennell
Kim L. Bennell University of Melbourne
Kurt P. Spindler
Kurt P. Spindler Cleveland Clinic
James J. Irrgang
James J. Irrgang University of Pittsburgh
Rana S. Hinman
Rana S. Hinman University of Melbourne
Ewa M. Roos
Ewa M. Roos University of Southern Denmark
Robert G. Marx
Robert G. Marx Hospital for Special Surgery
David J. Hunter
David J. Hunter Harvard University
Aileen M. Davis
Aileen M. Davis University of Toronto

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