Health
Why women's rugby needs its own injury prevention strategy
With the Women's Six Nation's Championship underway, there is mounting public concern regarding the risk of injuries to players.
Mar 30, 2024
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News tagged with acl injuries
Sports medicine & Kinesiology
Review calls for clinicians to adopt best-practice guidelines for knee pain
With knee pain affecting a large share of the community, a researcher at La Trobe University is calling for clinicians and GPs to avoid delays in adopting the most up to date, evidenced-based guidelines.
Oct 25, 2023
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Sports medicine & Kinesiology
Females less likely to heal from ACL injuries than males, finds study
Injuries of the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL), located in the knee, are typically thought to be caused by acute traumatic events, such as sudden twists. Led by Penn State researchers, new work analyzing an animal model ...
Oct 16, 2023
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Pediatrics
Researchers address uncertainty around ACL treatment decisions in young athletes
It's an injury once seen mainly in adults, yet it's become increasingly common in younger patients. From 2000 to 2020, the number of anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) tears in children and adolescents increased between three- ...
Sep 14, 2023
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Sports medicine & Kinesiology
Women soccer players more likely to tear their ACL than men. Here's why—and how to prevent these injuries
England women's soccer captain Leah Williamson and Dutch striker Vivianne Miedema will miss the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup, which starts this week, due to ACL injuries.
Jul 18, 2023
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Surgery
Ruptured ACLs can heal without surgery, study finds
Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) ruptures can heal without surgery and this could be key to better patient outcomes, according to new findings challenging the common notion that an ACL injury cannot heal.
Nov 14, 2022
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Sports medicine & Kinesiology
Social, not just biological factors, key in increased knee injuries among girls and women
Current approaches to a common and debilitating knee injury that occurs more frequently for women than men have focused for too long on biology at the expense of understanding social factors, say the authors of a new paper ...
Mar 26, 2021
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Arthritis & Rheumatism
Link established between altered gait after ACL injury and knee osteoarthritis
Almost half of patients who undergo surgery to repair a torn anterior cruciate ligament will develop knee osteoarthritis.
Jan 8, 2021
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Sports medicine & Kinesiology
Female athletes in WNBA don't return to elite performance for at least 2 years after ACL surgery
With the Michigan high school and collegiate sports season influx due to the COVID-19 pandemic, a study by Sports Medicine researchers at Henry Ford Health System provides a new perspective on performance levels of female ...
Dec 21, 2020
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Surgery
Why most knee injuries don't need surgery to heal
Two decades ago, orthopedic surgeons began taking notice of a particular oddity in patients who underwent anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction surgery.
Jun 5, 2020
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