Girls and ACL injuries

From NYTimes.com: The Uneven Playing Field

If girls and young women ruptured their A.C.L.’s at just twice the rate of boys and young men, it would be notable. Three times the rate would be astounding. But some researchers believe that in sports that both sexes play, and with similar rules — soccer, basketball, volleyball — female athletes rupture their A.C.L.’s at rates as high as five times that of males.

This is an interesting, but frightening article if you have girls who play sports.  I tore my ACL in my right knee 16 years while playing playing pickup basketball in college.  It’s amazing how far surgery has come, but it’s still an injury that takes a lot of work to come back from.