Dogs are proving to be more than just our best friends, with a new study finding that we have important proteins in common ...

These terms mean the same thing. An ACL tear happens when you partly or completely rupture the anterior cruciate ligament. Athletes often get ACL injuries when they stop and quickly change ...

Objective: Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries are the most common ligament injury in the United States. These injuries can be career ending for athletes and severely disabling for all ...

Callan Ward's season is over after confirmation of an anterior cruciate ligament injury.The GWS icon went down clutching his ...

This Journal feature begins with a case vignette highlighting a common clinical problem. Evidence supporting various strategies is then presented, followed by a review of formal guidelines, when ...

Women are two to eight times more likely than men to suffer a debilitating tear of the anterior cruciate ligament in the knee ... with elevated risk of ACL injuries. Both men and women tended ...

What Is a PCL Injury? A posterior cruciate ligament ... It works with another ligament, the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL), to keep the bones from moving too far forward or backward.

Dr. Sherwin Ho answers the question: 'Returning to Sports After an ACL Injury?' July 1, 2009— -- Question: When can I return to sports after an anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury?

Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Research Foundation Sports Medicine Biodynamics Center and Human Performance Laboratory, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA Background: Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury is a ...

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 ...

The anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) is one of the important ... They are named according to the location of their insertion on the tibia. Injury to the ACL is almost always associated with ...

It is the latter two in the middle that are called the cruciate ligaments, the posterior (meaning back) cruciate ligament and anterior cruciate ... from the time of injury, not necessarily from ...