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ACL
Double
Take
This local athlete
bounced back—
twice!—from a common injury
affecting young women
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Atlanta Christian School, she tore her right ACL. During
her junior year, she tore her left.
“The first time, at a game early in December, I heard
a pop,” Skyler says. “It didn’t really hurt, but my leg felt
like jelly.” After an MRI at Gwinnett Medical Center was
used to confirm the tear, Dr. Maughon performed ACL
reconstruction surgery in January, after which Skyler
online
ike many young women, Skyler Brody, 17, began
playing sports as a preschooler and has continued throughout her school years. Also like
many women, Skyler has torn an anterior cruciate ligament (ACL), one of the four major ligaments that
connect the femur and tibia behind the knee.
“Some orthopedists are calling ACL injuries among
female athletes an epidemic,” says T. Scott Maughon, MD,
an orthopedic surgeon on the Gwinnett Medical Center
Sports Medicine Committee. “Female athletes, especially
teenagers, are more likely to suffer an ACL injury than
male athletes, but we don’t know exactly why. Some of
the theories include differences in anatomy, knee alignment, knee laxity, hip rotation and knee hyperextension,
muscle strength and conditioning.”
In fact, research has shown that women tear their
ACLs two to eight times more often than their male counterparts, depending on the sport.
Generally, ACL injuries occur without contact from
another person, most often in sports that involve sudden
changes of direction or landing from a jump, such as basketball (Skyler’s favorite), gymnastics and soccer.
What’s more, “a young woman with an ACL tear is
highly likely to tear her other ACL,” Dr. Maughon says.
This, too, was true for Skyler. As a freshman at Greater
Everything You Want
to Know About
Sports Injuries
Discover more about injuries like ACL tears.
Go to gwinnettsportsmed.com and click
the links under “Common Sports Injuries
& Conditions.”
http://www.gwinnettsportsmed.com
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Contents
Phil’s Feature
ACL Double Take
Saving the Littlest Lives
The Ultimate Backto- School Checklist
Join the Movement
Stroke Stories
5 Steps to Better Bone Health
Gut Instinct
Morgan Freeman
Prostate Playbook
The Main Ingredient
Looking Ahead
Virtual Health
PrimeTime Health
Delivered from Devastation
A Big Reason to Smile
Out of the White Coat
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