Anterior cruciate ligament, or ACL, injuries are one of the most common among athletes. Each year, approximately 150,000 ACL injuries occur in the United States, particularly in sports that involve ...

Decades of research on prevention methods is available, but parents, researchers and trainers say that teams, coaches and ...

Female athletes have a higher risk of anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury than males. Combining exercises, such as strength, balance, and flexibility, in a preventive training program may help ...

If you’re a baseball fan, you’ve likely heard of Rhys Hoskins. Hoskins pounded 148 home runs in 667 games for the Philadelphia Phillies over six seasons. But he didn’t play a game last year after he ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . WAIKOLOA, Hawaii — At Orthopedics Today Hawaii, Hollis G. Potter, MD, shared her pearls for the assessment of ...

Objective We aimed to determine hip and lower-leg muscle strength in people after ACL injury compared with an uninjured control group (between people) and the uninjured contralateral limb (between ...

Specialists at the McGill University Health Centre have developed a free smartphone app that uses artificial intelligence to predict whether users are susceptible to one of the most dreaded of sports ...

Objective To investigate the prognostic capacity of individual hop tests, hop test batteries and other unilateral functional performance tests following anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury. Design ...

Lindsey Vonn wiped out in a downhill race on January 30. She got up limping, then was airlifted from the course. The diagnosis: a ruptured ACL — a season-ending injury for most. But the three-time ...