Chapel Hill News reports:
Kelsey Reeves knew lots of girls soccer players who had torn their
anterior cruciate ligament (ACL), but she never thought it would happen
to her.
She didn't think she had injured the crucial knee ligament
even after 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. "I knew anything could happen, but I
never thought something like this would happen to me. Even after I was
hurt, I didn't think it could be an ACL." Click here to continue reading.
Can female ACL injuries be prevented?
Penn Live reports:
Anterior Cruciate Ligament knee injuries occur four-to-six times more frequently in female athletes than in male athletes playing the same sports.
It is believed that the difference in neuromuscular control, or the way our muscles contract and react, is one of four primary factors contributing to why women are more susceptible to knee injuries than men. Other discrepancies are anatomical (men and women are structurally different), hormonal (women's hormonal makeup affects the integrity of the ligament, making it more lax), and bio-mechanical (the positions our knees get in during athletic activities).
Seventy percent of all ACL injuries occur without contact. Most ACL injuries occur at foot strike with the knee close to full extension during quick deceleration or landing maneuvers. To read more about ACL injury prevention in female athletes, click here.
Anterior Cruciate Ligament knee injuries occur four-to-six times more frequently in female athletes than in male athletes playing the same sports.
It is believed that the difference in neuromuscular control, or the way our muscles contract and react, is one of four primary factors contributing to why women are more susceptible to knee injuries than men. Other discrepancies are anatomical (men and women are structurally different), hormonal (women's hormonal makeup affects the integrity of the ligament, making it more lax), and bio-mechanical (the positions our knees get in during athletic activities).
Seventy percent of all ACL injuries occur without contact. Most ACL injuries occur at foot strike with the knee close to full extension during quick deceleration or landing maneuvers. To read more about ACL injury prevention in female athletes, click here.
New research on ACL injury prevention
The News Observer reports:
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.
North Carolina high school tennis star out for the season
News and Record reports:
Page sophomore Elizabeth Ansari is out for the season after likely tearing the ACL in her right knee during girls tennis practice Tuesday, Pirates coach Jason Allen said. She had an MRI on Thursday.
“It’d be safe to say that she’s out for the season,” Allen said. “It’s only about another two or three more weeks, and she can’t even walk.”
Ansari was playing at No. 3 singles for the stacked Pirates. Last season, as a freshman, she went 10-3 at No. 1 singles, was a Midwest Region semifinalist and a News & Record all-area selection. She was 11-0 this season.
“We were going to make a run for a state championship this year, but without her it’s going to be next to impossible,” Allen said. “She was a pivotal part of that.”
Page sophomore Elizabeth Ansari is out for the season after likely tearing the ACL in her right knee during girls tennis practice Tuesday, Pirates coach Jason Allen said. She had an MRI on Thursday.
“It’d be safe to say that she’s out for the season,” Allen said. “It’s only about another two or three more weeks, and she can’t even walk.”
Ansari was playing at No. 3 singles for the stacked Pirates. Last season, as a freshman, she went 10-3 at No. 1 singles, was a Midwest Region semifinalist and a News & Record all-area selection. She was 11-0 this season.
“We were going to make a run for a state championship this year, but without her it’s going to be next to impossible,” Allen said. “She was a pivotal part of that.”
Team rallys around Grossbard when ACL injury takes her out for the season
The Pearl River Patch reports:
Pearl River senior point guard Nicole Grossbard got the final word earlier this week.
She received a second opinion confirming that she tore the anterior cruciate ligament in her knee playing AAU basketball this summer. The injury will keep her from playing her senior year for the Pirates.
"She just got the final news," said Pearl River head coach Lorraine Moylan. "She went to a couple of doctors. She’s just been getting better and better. It’s just sad. I feel bad for her. Her senior year not getting to play." To continue reading, click here.
Pearl River senior point guard Nicole Grossbard got the final word earlier this week.
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She received a second opinion confirming that she tore the anterior cruciate ligament in her knee playing AAU basketball this summer. The injury will keep her from playing her senior year for the Pirates.
"She just got the final news," said Pearl River head coach Lorraine Moylan. "She went to a couple of doctors. She’s just been getting better and better. It’s just sad. I feel bad for her. Her senior year not getting to play." To continue reading, click here.
Top girls basketball player in Kentucky out for the season
WDRB.com reports:
The top girls basketball player in [Kentucky] and one of the best in the country will miss her Junior season.
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Becca Greenwell, a 6' 1" forward from
Owensboro Catholic High School suffered a torn ACL in her right knee
Sunday while playing for the U.S. team in the FIBA 3-on-3 Youth
Championships in Italy.
Greenwell led the state in scoring as a
Sophomore with 32 points a game and has already amassed over 28-hundred
points in her career. She's ranked fifth in the class of 2013 nationally
by ESPN's HoopGurlz.
Stanley hasn't missed a beat since she's been hurt.
BlueRidgeNow.com reports:
With her 2010 senior season abruptly cut short by a torn ACL
during a match in the team's first tournament, University of Albany
volleyball player Brooke Stanley spent what should have been her final
and best year yet with the Great Danes in physical therapy.
Now that her 2011 senior
season has arrived, after Stanley was redshirted for 2010, she's finally
getting to execute those goals she set for herself and her team a year
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And she's wasting no time. To read more, click here.
Jade Rogers has a great attitude about recovery
The Gazette reports:
Iowa Coach Lisa Bluder announced today sophomore Jade Rogers will undergo surgery Thursday to repair her injured left knee and will miss the entire 2011-12 season.
Rogers suffered a torn ACL while at Cedar Rapids Kennedy and has also had meniscus injuries during her time at Iowa. Thursday’s surgery will realign her left leg to help her knee heal. To read more, click here.
Iowa Coach Lisa Bluder announced today sophomore Jade Rogers will undergo surgery Thursday to repair her injured left knee and will miss the entire 2011-12 season.
Rogers suffered a torn ACL while at Cedar Rapids Kennedy and has also had meniscus injuries during her time at Iowa. Thursday’s surgery will realign her left leg to help her knee heal. To read more, click here.
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Rockford volleyball player Halle Peterson puts ACL in past
Mlive.com reports:
It was a seemingly innocent play on a volleyball court, an attempt to set up a successful attack so the Rockford volleyball team could score a point in its Class A district final against Lowell.
Instead, it ended up a painful experience for the Rams’ Halle Peterson. What she thought was a simple bone bruise in her right knee turned out to be a costly torn anterior cruciate ligament.
"I think it was when I jumped up that it happened," Peterson said. "I just felt like someone hit me really hard above the knee. I thought it was a bruise and I’d be able to go back in and play."
Instead, despite a valiant effort, Peterson’s junior season ended after 1,303 assists and a verbal commitment to Michigan State University made three weeks before her injury. Peterson also missed her junior year in basketball. Click to continue.
It was a seemingly innocent play on a volleyball court, an attempt to set up a successful attack so the Rockford volleyball team could score a point in its Class A district final against Lowell.
Instead, it ended up a painful experience for the Rams’ Halle Peterson. What she thought was a simple bone bruise in her right knee turned out to be a costly torn anterior cruciate ligament.
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"I think it was when I jumped up that it happened," Peterson said. "I just felt like someone hit me really hard above the knee. I thought it was a bruise and I’d be able to go back in and play."
Instead, despite a valiant effort, Peterson’s junior season ended after 1,303 assists and a verbal commitment to Michigan State University made three weeks before her injury. Peterson also missed her junior year in basketball. Click to continue.
Happy to be Healthy
The Chicago Tribune reports:
St. Charles East junior setter Erienne Barry recalled the date without hesitation.
"It was October 5th when I tore my ACL," Barry said of an injury to her right knee suffered last year against St. Charles North.
Barry had surgery Oct. 27 and missed the rest of the season, possibly taking the Saints' Class 4A title aspirations away in the process.
"It was definitely hard on me," Barry said Saturday at the Conant Early Bird Invite. "I knew I had to stay with my team. It made me stronger." Click to continue.
St. Charles East junior setter Erienne Barry recalled the date without hesitation.
"It was October 5th when I tore my ACL," Barry said of an injury to her right knee suffered last year against St. Charles North.
Barry had surgery Oct. 27 and missed the rest of the season, possibly taking the Saints' Class 4A title aspirations away in the process.
"It was definitely hard on me," Barry said Saturday at the Conant Early Bird Invite. "I knew I had to stay with my team. It made me stronger." Click to continue.
Back in Action After and ACL Injury
wkuherald.com reports:
After tearing the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) in her right leg last December, WKU senior middle hitter Tiffany Elmore says she didn’t even consider missing time this season.
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“I had in my mind the whole time that I was going to be back ready to go for the start,” she said.
The injury happened in WKU’s NCAA Tournament match against Cincinnati.
Elmore said after the injury she knew she was going to have to work to be ready for the start of the volleyball season. Click to continue.
Kristi Kingma Out for the Season after ACL Injury
King5.com reports:
Kristi Kingma will miss the entire 2011-12 season after tearing the anterior cruciate ligament in her right knee. The injury comes less than a month before the Washington women's basketball program reports for the start of the regular season.
The senior guard from Mill Creek, Wash., sustained the tear in Norway when she was driving to the basket during Washington's foreign tour game against Asker. Although the prognosis was initially optimistic, a magnetic resonance imaging test back in Seattle revealed the full extent of the injury.
"I'm extremely disappointed for Kristi," said first-year coach Kevin McGuff. "She's worked really hard in the offseason to put herself in position to have a wonderful senior season. I still look forward to her having a positive impact on our team and program this year." Click to continue.
Kristi Kingma will miss the entire 2011-12 season after tearing the anterior cruciate ligament in her right knee. The injury comes less than a month before the Washington women’s basketball program reports for the start of the regular season.
The senior guard from Mill Creek, Wash., sustained the tear recently in Norway when she was driving to the basket during Washington’s foreign tour game against Asker. Although the prognosis was initially optimistic, an MRI test back in Seattle revealed the full extent of the injury. Click to continue.
Gohuskies.com reports:
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The senior guard from Mill Creek, Wash., sustained the tear in Norway when she was driving to the basket during Washington's foreign tour game against Asker. Although the prognosis was initially optimistic, a magnetic resonance imaging test back in Seattle revealed the full extent of the injury.
"I'm extremely disappointed for Kristi," said first-year coach Kevin McGuff. "She's worked really hard in the offseason to put herself in position to have a wonderful senior season. I still look forward to her having a positive impact on our team and program this year." Click to continue.
Monique Currie returns from ACL injury in victory
The Washington Post Reports:
Washington Mystics forward Monique Currie was cleared to play by members of the team’s medical staff several weeks ago, but they wanted Currie to hold off on returning to the court during a game until Thursday. The staff had told her she wasn’t yet mentally ready for the rigors of competition eight months after tearing the anterior cruciate ligament in her left knee.
“The biggest part is mental,” Currie said. “You can have a surgery, you can feel good, but there’s still a lot that goes into going out there and playing and being confident and being sure of what your knee or whatever you injured can do.” Click to continue.
Staying Optimistic During ACL Rehab
intlgymnast.com reports:
Although 2011 Canadian all-around silver medalist Jessica Savona will miss this fall's world championships because of a torn left ACL, she told IG she is keeping busy and staying optimistic during her varied regimen of rehabilitation.
"The last two weeks have been pretty crazy for me in terms of rehab and running around getting from place to place!" said Savona, who injured her left ACL on vault at the Japan Cup in early July.
Savona said she began simple rehab on Aug. 15, three days after surgery. Her original rehab consisted of trying to walk on her injured knee and activate its muscles. To continue reading, click here.
Although 2011 Canadian all-around silver medalist Jessica Savona will miss this fall's world championships because of a torn left ACL, she told IG she is keeping busy and staying optimistic during her varied regimen of rehabilitation.
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"The last two weeks have been pretty crazy for me in terms of rehab and running around getting from place to place!" said Savona, who injured her left ACL on vault at the Japan Cup in early July.
Savona said she began simple rehab on Aug. 15, three days after surgery. Her original rehab consisted of trying to walk on her injured knee and activate its muscles. To continue reading, click here.
Coping with life after ACL surgery
Indiana News Center Reports:
In 2009, Nicole Biggs, then a sophomore at Carroll High School, tore her ACL in a soccer match against Bishop Dwenger. Today, she prepares to lead the Chargers to the state tournament and talks about her recovery.
Biggs tore her anterior cruciate ligament in her right knee after jumping and landing incorrectly. It was a non-contact injury but one that could be heard around the field.
“Everyone on the sideline heard it pop. It swelled up immediately. I could not walk on it, so we knew something was wrong right away.”
The ACL is one of four major ligaments in the knee and when it comes to sports related injuries is perhaps the most commonly torn ligament. In female athletes, according to Dr. Greg Sassmannshausen of Fort Wayne Orthopaedics, the occurrence rate is even higher.
To continue reading, click here.
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