Kato ACL Laboratory
Project
Our Project
The main objective of laboratory is to prevent sports overuse and trauma injuries in young athletes.
Project 1
Our studies focusing on mechanism of non-contact anterior cruciate ligament injuries.
The research was financially supported by the Sasakawa Scientfic Research Grant from The Japan Sience Society (Grant Number 17-252).
A new study was supported by Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists：JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number 24700683.
The latest study was supported by Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research：JSPS KAKENHI
Grant Number 15K01580.
Project 2
Research on the prevention of non-contact ACL injuries in adolescent female basketball players.
Project 3
We investigated the awareness of fluid intake and body weight change in college basketball players. Female players from 2 teams of the basketball agreed to participate.
And our recent studies have demonstrated that body weight changes and voluntary fluid intakes during training in college tennis players. The calculated average fluid intake and body weight change of players were 1580ml and 1.4%, respectively.
These researches have focused on preventing heat stroke.