ACL Injury Prevention Program for Female Athletes

Description

The Young Athlete Hub ACL Prevention Program for Female Athletes is a detailed report and strength training program designed to help reduce the risk of ACL injuries.

Female athletes are all too often plagued by the dreaded ACL tear. The numbers don’t lie. Women are two to eight times more likely to sustain an ACL tear in sports that are at the highest risk such as basketball and soccer (Arendtt American Journal of Sports Medicine). The incidence of significant knee injury among females is roughly five times higher per player than for males (Arendtt American Journal of Sports Medicine). According to 1998 injury statistics from the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, more than 81,600 athletes injured their knee playing soccer, and 225,800 sustained knee injuries in basketball- the two highest risk sports for ACL injury in female athletes.

The most encouraging aspect of the bad news about ACL tears is that 70% are non contact injuries (Madden The Stone Clinic). These non contact injuries occur during rapid movements in which the athlete is cutting, pivoting, or * landing. We can train female athletes to be strong, flexible, coordinated, and stable. We can enlist a variety of exercises and techniques to provide maximal stability to Their knee joints. We can greatly reduce the number of ACL tears in female athletes through an intelligent and well-coordinated training scheme.