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 One of the most frequent and debilitating injuries in sports medicine is a torn ACL. The ACL is one of two ligaments in the center of your knee connecting your femur to your tibia. Typically, the ACL is torn when playing high intensity sports like soccer, basketball, and football due to the pivoting motions these intense games require. An ACL injury usually results in patients feeling as if their knee if giving out, and often say they felt a ‘popping’ when the injury occurred. An ACL knee injury varies in severity and need for surgery is different for every patient based on activity level.
Recently, ACL injuries have gained attention amongst sports medicine doctors who are trying to understand why female athletes are more at risk for ACL injuries than male athletes. Studies comparing competitive female and male soccer players have found a three-to-five times higher risk of ACL injury in female players. Doctors point to hormonal and neuromuscular differences between male and female anatomy as possible reasons for the increased risk of ACL injury among females. As a leader in sports medicine, Emory has devoted a program solely to this issue and is devising new ways to approach ACL surgery and techniques.
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I didn’t agree with you first, but last paragraph makes sense for me…