http://www.wlfi.com reports:
"We were in a scrimmage against ISU and I went to make a move to the basket, and my body went one way and my knee went the other. It just snapped," said Purdue Women's Basketball player Drey Mingo. "I knew immediately. I was just kind of like 'Oh my gosh, is this happening?'"
An ACL tear is one of the most dangerous injuries in sports and among the most common. 200,000 ACL tears occur each year in the United States, and the most likely candidates are women.
"Females, depending what sport they play, are about two to ten times more likely to tear their ACL than males," said Orthopedic Surgeon Dr. Robert Hagen.
Dr. Hagen said it's usually the collegiate and professional athletes you hear about tearing their ACL's, but he said that's because of their high profile status. He said the ones in real danger are actually adolescent girls around the age of 13.
"There's some anatomical reasons," said Dr. Hagen. "The area where the ligament attaches is a little smaller in a female. They land differently, if you watch junior high girls playing and boys playing, girls tend to land with their hips straight and their knees straight, where guys land with their knees flexed and their hips flexed."
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Bay Area top girls basketball player on the mend
Bay News 9 reports:
One of the Bay Area's top girls basketball players is on the mend following surgery to repair a torn ACL.
Riverview junior guard Tesha Hanson had surgery nearly two weeks ago, her father Reggie Hanson said, and has already begun physical therapy.
Reggie Hanson, USF's Men's Director of Basketball Operations, said his daughter will be ready for the high school season.
Last season, Hanson was the Sharks second-leading scorer with a 19.0 points per game average. She was also second on the team with 3.9 steals per game.
Hanson, and Riverview's leading scorer Faith Woodard, form one of the best combos in Hillsborough County. Riverview (21-5) closed out the season with two-straight losses - to Tampa Bay Tech in the district championship game and to Haines City in the first round of the playoffs.
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Penny Taylor underwent successful surgery
WNBA.com reports:
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Phoenix Mercury forward Penny Taylor underwent successful surgery to repair the torn anterior cruciate ligament in her left knee, the club announced today. The surgery was conducted in Melbourne, Australia by world-renowned knee surgeon Julian Feller. Taylor is expected to make a full recovery by the end of 2012.
Taylor sustained the injury March 29 while playing for Fenerbahce (Turkey) in the Euroleague Final 8 and will miss the entire WNBA season as well as the 2012 London Olympic Games.
The three-time WNBA All-Star will rejoin the Mercury for the 2012 season to continue the rehabilitation process. She is expected to return to Phoenix prior to the May 20 season opener in Minnesota and is cleared to participate in all team-related activities. While unable to play, Taylor will be listed as an active player on the team’s 11-player roster.
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Why are women more susceptible to knee injuries?
Wired reports:
Women are more susceptible to knee injuries than men, a fact long attributed to differences in muscular and skeletal structure. A new study suggests gender differences in the nervous system also may play a role.
Research at Oregon State University suggests men and women differ in how they transmit the nerve impulses that control muscle force. The finding may help explain why women are far more likely than men to blow out their knees, specifically the anterior cruciate ligaments, during non-contact activity. Answering that question could lead to training regimens that reduce the risk of injury. Although ACL tears often are repaired, there is a 15 percent chance of re-tearing, and even repaired injuries can lead to osteoarthritis.
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“Some people say women are twice as likely to injure their ACL than men,” said Sam Johnson, one of the authors of the study and a clinical associate professor in the School of Biological and Population Health Sciences. “Some say eight times, but it’s probably somewhere in between.”
Researchers have been trying for 20 years to figure out why women are so prone to knee injuries. They’ve long known skeletal and muscle differences are a factor, but not so great as to explain the divergence in injury rates between the sexes.
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Lindsay Suyes is back after ACL Surgery
newsleader.com reports:
When Lindsay Suyes was helped off the field last April during a soccer game, the then Wilson Memorial junior recalled thinking one thing.
"This really hurts."
The Green Hornets were hosting Robert E. Lee and Suyes remembered waiting for teammate Sarah Thibodeau to cross the ball.
When Thibodeau hit the line, Suyes, standing all alone, turned. Nothing drastic. No contact by another player. She simply turned. As she described it, half of her knee stayed still and the other half moved.
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When Lindsay Suyes was helped off the field last April during a soccer game, the then Wilson Memorial junior recalled thinking one thing.
"This really hurts."
The Green Hornets were hosting Robert E. Lee and Suyes remembered waiting for teammate Sarah Thibodeau to cross the ball.
When Thibodeau hit the line, Suyes, standing all alone, turned. Nothing drastic. No contact by another player. She simply turned. As she described it, half of her knee stayed still and the other half moved.
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Understanding of ACL injuries is still evolving
The Baltimore Sun reports:
Concussions may have recently taken the spotlight in lacrosse sports medicine, but anterior cruciate ligament injuries are still a major unanswered issue for the sport. ACL tears are the leading cause of missed game and practice time at both the high school and college levels of play for both males and females.
Concussions may have recently taken the spotlight in lacrosse sports medicine, but anterior cruciate ligament injuries are still a major unanswered issue.
ACL tears are the leading cause of missed game and practice time at both the high school and college levels of play for both males and females. Data from the US Lacrosse membership insurance program shows that knee-related claims —primarily ACL injuries — are greater than all other injury payouts combined. In general, ACL injury rates are on the rise but are particularly high in teenage boys and girls, females of all ages and players with a previous history of ACL tear.
The risk factors for initial injury and failure of return to play are multifaceted and include core athletic abilities, lower-extremity biomechanics, fear of reinjury and access to comprehensive medical care. Although most ACL injures are noncontact in nature, video analysis reveals that these injuries are often related to adjustments such as a quick dodge or awkward landing that players must make in response to unanticipated activities around them.
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ACL injuries more prevalent in women
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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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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