Females are four times more likely to tear their ACL, a key ligament in the knee, compared to their male counterparts. It is a very common and devastating injury for high school athletes, forced to go ...

Awareness of ACL (anterior cruciate ligament) knee injuries is increasing, yet prevention programs are still lacking. ACL injuries continue to have devastating consequences for athletes, especially ...

An analysis of high school soccer players suggests that incorporating a lower extremity injury prevention program results in fewer anterior cruciate ligament tears and a big reduction in health care ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Use of an ACL injury prevention program in high school sports may produce more than $60 million in health care ...

Background Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury prevention programs have shown mixed results, which may be in part due to suboptimal training components. Objective Determine effects of a prevention ...

Background Anterior cruciate ligament injury (ACL) prevention programs lack game specificity, and the effect on knee loading and movement technique during sport-specific cutting tasks has rarely been ...

Holly J. Silvers, MPT, is Project Coordinator at the Santa Monica Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Research Foundation, Santa Monica, California. Bert R. Mandelbaum, MD, practices at the Foundation and ...

Rosemont, Ill.--The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) Board of Directors has approved Appropriate Use Criteria (AUCs) for anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury prevention programs and ...

Orthopedic surgeons started noticing an alarming trend years ago: more and more young female athletes were tearing their ACL’s, and then re-tearing them after surgery and rehab. Bert Mandelbaum, MD, ...

The ACL is one of four major knee ligaments that help to stablize the knee. It can tear, and many times it happens in athletics. But, girls and women are at a higher risk of this happening. There's a ...