About the Authors

Richard F. Ittenbach

Contributed equally to this work with: Richard F. Ittenbach, Guixia Huang, Kim D. Barber Foss, Timothy E. Hewett, Gregory D. Myer

richard.ittenbach@cchmc.org

Affiliations Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Guixia Huang

Contributed equally to this work with: Richard F. Ittenbach, Guixia Huang, Kim D. Barber Foss, Timothy E. Hewett, Gregory D. Myer

Affiliation Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Kim D. Barber Foss

Contributed equally to this work with: Richard F. Ittenbach, Guixia Huang, Kim D. Barber Foss, Timothy E. Hewett, Gregory D. Myer

Affiliation Division of Sports Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Timothy E. Hewett

Contributed equally to this work with: Richard F. Ittenbach, Guixia Huang, Kim D. Barber Foss, Timothy E. Hewett, Gregory D. Myer

Affiliation Mayo Clinic Biomechanics Laboratories and Mayo Sports Medicine Center, Rochester and Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Gregory D. Myer

Contributed equally to this work with: Richard F. Ittenbach, Guixia Huang, Kim D. Barber Foss, Timothy E. Hewett, Gregory D. Myer

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America, Division of Sports Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America, Sports Health & Performance Institute, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America, The Micheli Center for Sports Injury Prevention, Waltham, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RFI GH GDM. Performed the experiments: KBF GDM. Analyzed the data: GH RFI KBF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GDM TEH. Wrote the paper: RFI GH KBF TEH GDM.