Women’s anatomy puts them at greater risk of knee ligament injury

Woman are far more susceptible than men to tearing a certain ligament around their knee after sudden stops or changes in direction during sports, as well as when jumping and landing, orthopaedists have found. A tear of the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) is a kind of injury that’s common in sports like volleyball, football, basketball, tennis and downhill skiing, and women are particularly prone to it, research has shown. According to Germany’s Professional Association of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgeons (BVOU), they’re in fact two to eight times more likely to tear their ACL, a band of tissue…

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