Non-contact anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries are serious and debilitating, often resulting from the performance
of evasive sides-stepping (Ssg) by team sport athletes. Previous laboratory based investigations of evasive Ssg have used
generic visual stimuli to simulate realistic time and space constraints that athletes experience in the preparation and
execution of the manoeuvre. However, the use of unrealistic visual stimuli to impose these constraints may not be
accurately identifying the relationship between the perceptual demands and ACL loading during Ssg in actual game
environments. We propose that stereoscopically filmed footage featuring sport specific opposing defender/s simulating a
tackle on the viewer, when used as visual stimuli, could improve the ecological validity of laboratory based
investigations of evasive Ssg. Due to the need for precision and not just the experience of viewing depth in these
scenarios, a rigorous filming process built on key geometric considerations and equipment development to enable a
separation of 6.5 cm between two commodity cameras had to be undertaken. Within safety limits, this could be an
invaluable tool in enabling more accurate investigations of the associations between evasive Ssg and ACL injury risk.
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