This week we are going to discuss one of the most devastating injuries that an athlete can suffer in an athletic career-the anterior cruciate ligament tear. The subject of ACL tears brings up many ...

A rehabilitation protocol that involves initiating progressive eccentric resistance exercises 3 weeks after patients undergo anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction can more than double quadriceps ...

There are approximately 150,000 anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) tears a year, most of which need to be fixed surgically. However, new research at the Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) in New York ...

The anterior cruciate ligament, or ACL, is one of the ligaments that support your knee, connecting your thigh bone to your shin bone, according to Cleveland Clinic. The ACL provides support during ...

Maybe it was a bad cut. Maybe someone ran into you. Either way, surgery is coming. That’s hard enough, but here’s the real concern: around one in four athletes who suffer an ACL tear never return to ...

Unfortunately, ACL injuries are far too common, with between 100,000 and 200,000 ACL tears occurring every year, according to ...