Kelsey Reeves knew lots of girls soccer
players who had torn their anterior cruciate ligament. But she didn't
think she had injured her own ACL as she lay on the ground in pain
during a Leesville Road High game last spring. There was no contact,
just one misstep.
"I had never been injured," she said. "Even after I was hurt, I didn't think it could be an ACL."
But Reeves' injury was typical of most ACL injuries. About 70 to 80 percent of ACL injuries come without any contact to the knee and females are much more likely to injure their ACL than males, according to Darin Padua, an associate professor and director of the Sports Medicine Research Laboratory at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. To read more, click here.
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"I had never been injured," she said. "Even after I was hurt, I didn't think it could be an ACL."
But Reeves' injury was typical of most ACL injuries. About 70 to 80 percent of ACL injuries come without any contact to the knee and females are much more likely to injure their ACL than males, according to Darin Padua, an associate professor and director of the Sports Medicine Research Laboratory at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. To read more, click here.
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