Research shows that female athletes are more likely to tear their ACLs than their male counterparts, but it has yet to determine why. A new study, funded by FIFA, aims to answer that question.

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to identify ACL injuries occurring during matches in players of Italian first (Serie A) and second (Serie B) division professional football teams. Second, the same systematic single-player approach ...

ACL injuries are a risk for male and female footballers but so much is still unknown The road was long but Mead’s recovery has been focused and meticulous by keeping a close eye on the data ...

Understanding what causes ACL tears is important information for ... hearing that hormonal shifts that women experience can confound data, or that studying elite athletes is studying extremes.

Objectives To evaluate the impact of ski geometry data and standing height ratio on anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury risk of male and female recreational skiers. Methods A retrospective ...

Data were derived from Economopoulos EJ, et al. ACL reconstruction with and without lateral extra-articular tenodesis in female soccer players. Presented at: Arthroscopy Association of North ...