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 ...

Editor's Note: The following is part of a class project originally initiated in the classroom of Ball State University professor Adam Kuban in fall 2021. Kuban continued the project this spring ...

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 ...

The Santa Monica Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Research Foundation, through a grant from the Amateur Athletic Foundation of Los Angeles, designed the PEP Program: P revent injury and E nhance P ...

After nearly a decade of coaching girls soccer, Andy Beall had never witnessed anything like it, and it still has him scratching his head. Last year, anterior cruciate ligament injuries ripped through ...

Background There is limited evidence describing methods and challenges for implementing anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury prevention programs (IPP) in a “real-world” context. Objective Evaluate ...

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 ...

However, as we know, what comes along with athletics is the possibility of injury, and ACL injuries are common in high school athletics but there are preventative measures you can take. The ...

At one point in history, anterior cruciate ligament injuries were career-ending for professional football players. Even today, they can sideline a player for an entire season. On the surface, this ...

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 ...