In the 1970s and 1980s, combined ACL and grade 3 medial collateral ligament injuries were primarily treated with big, open surgical procedures.“It was terrible,” Andy Williams, MBBS, FRCS(Ortho), ...
Unfortunately, ACL injuries are far too common, with between 100,000 and 200,000 ACL tears occurring every year, according to the Cleveland Clinic. The ACL, or anterior cruciate ligament, is an ...
(WFRV) – Because of the number of high-profile NFL players who suffered season-ending knee injuries this year — Micah Parsons and Tucker Kraft, for example — it may have felt like ACL injuries were ...
Sports scientists are trying to figure out why female athletes are so prone to a specific type of knee injury. Women are up to eight times more likely than men to tear their ACLs, but little research ...
Lindsey Vonn passed her first major test since tearing her ACL in a downhill race at the World Cup downhill on Jan. 30.
Researchers at Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) found in a new study that athletes who report higher levels of psychological readiness to return to sport following anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) ...