Teenage girls are most likely to tear their ACLs. Parents say more must be done to protect them
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The ranks of female high school athletes who tore their anterior cruciate ligament are growing fast and researchers are pressing the sports world to take the devastating injury more seriously and trying to bolster prevention efforts
HARRISBURG, Pa. -- Sofia Tepichin was about 30 minutes into her club soccer team practice in October when she spotted a fast-approaching defender. She tapped the ball away and hopped over the defender's outstretched foot, came down awkwardly, and heard a “pop.”
She immediately fell to the ground, pain shooting through her left knee and knew it wasn't good. It was, she said, “heartbreaking.”
“And I knew personally that I tore my ACL,” Tepichin said.
Tepichin joined the growing ranks of female high school athletes tearing their anterior cruciate ligament, a devastating knee injury that researchers are pressing the sports world to take more seriously.
Decades of research on prevention methods is available, but parents, researchers and trainers say that teams, coaches and leagues aren't doing enough to protect the girls and educate parents.
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