Is 'sidecutting' a sports-specific movement? biomechanical differences between female soccer and team handball players

In soccer and team handball, anterior cruciate ligament injuries often occur during abrupt changes of direction. The present study shows that the sidecutting manoeuvre is performed differently and results in different sagittal plane joint loadings, but no difference in frontal and transverse plane biomechanics, when comparing elite female athletes from the two sports. This may be important when selecting participants for biomechanical studies, as the technical performance of a sidecutting manoeuvre may vary among sports and as such influence the outcome.