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Sport-specific demands could impact the amount of leg strength asymmetry between the dominant and non-dominant leg present in athletes.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec id=\"hypothesispurpose\">\n                    <jats:title>Hypothesis\/Purpose<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>The purpose of this pilot study was to explore the amount of lower limb strength asymmetry between the dominant and non-dominant of female collegiate athletes across different sports.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec id=\"study-design\">\n                    <jats:title>Study Design<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Case control study.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec id=\"methods\">\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>A total of 43 female Division I collegiate athletes from soccer, tennis, and volleyball teams participated in the study. Subjects were separated into groups based on participation in a jumping sport (volleyball) versus a cutting sport (soccer and tennis). Differences in concentric quadriceps peak torque between the dominant and non-dominant legs at 60 deg\/sec, measured using the Biodex System 3 isokinetic dynamometer, were compared across groups. Athletes of each sport type were classified as \u201cdominant stronger\u201d, \u201cequal\u201d, or \u201cnon-dominant stronger\u201d based on the differences between leg strength using a cut-off value of a difference of 10ft-lbs of torque. Odds ratios were calculated to determine the association between sport exposure and quadriceps strength on the dominant side.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec id=\"results\">\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Jumping athletes were 30 times (OR=29.96 (CI 95%, 1.56 - 577.25) more likely than cutting athletes to have a stronger dominant quadriceps. In jumping athletes, the participants were distributed almost evenly across the \u201cdominant stronger\u201d, \u201cnon-dominant stronger\u201d, and \u201cequal\u201d groups. In cutting athletes, 76.9% fell into the \u201cequal\u201d category, while the remaining 23.1% fell into the \u201cnon-dominant stronger\u201d category.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec id=\"conclusion\">\n                    <jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Female collegiate jumping athletes were much more likely to have a stronger quadriceps on the dominant vs non-dominant leg than were cutting athletes. This information can be used to help develop specific strength and conditioning and rehabilitative programs for female athletes.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec id=\"level-of-evidence\">\n                    <jats:title>Level of Evidence<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Level 3<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.26603\/001c.137955","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2025,5,31]],"date-time":"2025-05-31T21:06:05Z","timestamp":1748725565000},"source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":1,"title":["Comparing the Dominant and Non-Dominant Leg Strength of Division I Collegiate Female Cutting Athletes to Jumping Athletes: A Pilot Study"],"prefix":"10.26603","volume":"20","author":[{"given":"Julia L","family":"Rapicavoli","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"id":[{"id":"https:\/\/ror.org\/02dgjyy92","id-type":"ROR","asserted-by":"publisher"}],"name":"University of Miami","department":["Department of Intercollegiate Athletics"]},{"id":[{"id":"https:\/\/ror.org\/02dgjyy92","id-type":"ROR","asserted-by":"publisher"}],"name":"University of Miami","department":["Department of Physical Therapy"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Luis A","family":"Feigenbaum","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"id":[{"id":"https:\/\/ror.org\/02dgjyy92","id-type":"ROR","asserted-by":"publisher"}],"name":"University of Miami","department":["Department of Intercollegiate Athletics"]},{"id":[{"id":"https:\/\/ror.org\/02dgjyy92","id-type":"ROR","asserted-by":"publisher"}],"name":"University of Miami","department":["Department of Physical Therapy"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Kathryn E","family":"Roach","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"id":[{"id":"https:\/\/ror.org\/02dgjyy92","id-type":"ROR","asserted-by":"publisher"}],"name":"University of Miami","department":["Department of Physical Therapy"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Eryn K","family":"Milian","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"id":[{"id":"https:\/\/ror.org\/02dgjyy92","id-type":"ROR","asserted-by":"publisher"}],"name":"University of Miami","department":["Department of Physical Therapy"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"11140","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2025,6,2]]},"reference":[{"issue":"8","key":"ref1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"2314","DOI":"10.1519\/JSC.0000000000002579","article-title":"Normative quadriceps and hamstring muscle strength values for female, healthy, elite handball and football players","volume":"32","author":"M. 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