Background Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury is one of the most severe injuries for athletes. It is important to identify risk factors, since a better understanding of injury causation can help ...

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), ...

There is no consensus on how to remedy the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) knee injury crisis in women’s football. Maybe because there is no obvious solution. What exactly do we attribute the Rolodex ...

Women athletes are significantly more likely than men to suffer tears of the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL), a small but crucial structure in the knee whose failure can derail months of a person’s ...

GREENSBORO, N.C. (WGHP) — A kinesiology professor at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro has invented a device to help women who play sports know if they’re at greater risk for an ACL ...

Background: The present study was performed to determine whether MRI findings can predict the degree of knee joint laxity in patients undergoing ACL reconstruction and whether the accuracy of the ...

While landing after a lay-up, a 22-year-old college basketball player felt his right knee give way, with an accompanying "pop." He noted pain, developed a hemarthrosis within 2 hours, and was unable ...

The real impact of ACL injuries in women’s football There is no consensus on how to remedy the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) knee injury crisis in women’s football. Maybe because there is no ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. GREENSBORO, N.C. (WGHP) — A kinesiology ...

According to data presented at the Radiological Society of North America Annual Meeting, ACL tears were seen with higher frequency in men vs. women in patients who presented for MRI with a primary ...

Dexterity through Dextrose For osteoarthritis sufferers, injections of a sugar solution could be much more than placebo, a new study suggests (K.D. Reeves et al., "Randomized prospective double-blind ...

FIFA will be funding an academic study at Kingston University to investigate whether there is a link between the menstrual cycle and anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries in women's soccer, which ...