It's every top athlete's worst nightmare: an anterior cruciate ligament injury. TU/e researcher Janne Spierings developed a ...

Introduction. In the United States, anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries total between 100 000 and 200 000 yearly, making this the most common ligament injury.

Previously, studies on gender disparities in ACL injuries has focused on biological factors, such as anatomy and hormones. However, ACL injury rates among girls and women have remained unchanged ...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared Miach Orthopaedics Bridge-Enhanced ACL Restoration (BEAR) implant for ...

Women’s basketball players – and female athletes across high‐intensity, pivoting sports – are two to eight times more likely than men to suffer ACL injuries.

WESTBOROUGH, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Miach Orthopaedics, Inc., a company transforming the treatment of anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) tears with the BEAR® Implant, has received U.S. Food & Drug ...

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Dr. Christina Allen, the chief of Yale Sports Medicine and an ACL surgery specialist, about the reasons women tend to have more ACL injuries than men.

Experts have suggested multiple reasons why girls and women injure their ACL more than boys and men, including anatomy, hormones and even genetics.

Background The anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury rate for girls/women has not changed in over 20 years, and they remain 3–6 times more likely to experience injury compared with boys/men. To date ...

Dr. Derek Ochiai breaks down JuJu Watkins' ACL injury and how it could impact her future performance. ... "Differences in women's anatomy is the main thing," Dr. Ochiai explained.

Mechanoreceptors, Ruffini (black arrow) and pacinian (white arrow), in a torn anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) specimen adapted to the PCL. Taken from Georgoulis et al 22 with permission. Figure 3.