The New Haven Register reports:
The first time, Carley Mulligan was in eighth grade.
She went up for a layup and got bumped from behind by a defender. She came down on her right leg, her knee turned in and twisted. Mulligan had torn her anterior cruciate ligament, one of four major ligaments in the knee.
Then, about a year later, Mulligan was on the floor for a game during her freshman season at Choate. She was up the court, dribbling. No other player was around. Mulligan planted her left foot, went to turn the other way and tore her left ACL.
“I was injury-free until that happened,” said Mulligan, now a junior at Choate. “Sports were a huge part of my life. I was devastated.”
Mulligan is one of countless female athletes that have fallen victim to the ACL epidemic.
Michael Medvecky, associate professor in the department of orthopaedics and rehabilitation at the Yale School of Medicine, along with Paul Bauer, an orthopedic physical therapist and practice director of Physical Therapy Specialists, recently put on a free presentation at Adams Middle School in Guilford. They showed why ACL injuries are more common in females and how to help prevent them. Mulligan was on hand to share her story of twice suffering a torn ACL.
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