ACL injuries growing problem for young female athletes
, he recalls, "I reconstructedACLs for just four male high school soccer players, compared to 25 girls... the anterior cruciate ligament, or ACL, in her knee during the last game of the 2005 soccer season. She's been
Weekend warriors: Avoid injury from walking, hiking, running
Temple University podiatrist Dr. Howard Palamarchuk advises walkers not to ignore foot and ankle pain. Dr. Palamarchuk offers tips for avoiding foot, ACL, head and sun-related injuries in an interview
Knee pain
I'm 22 and have been an athlete my whole life, in Oct 2008 I tore my ACL playing field hockey at school, had surgery, then fractured my patella and had major surgery again 2 weeks after the first
Think About It: You are what you eat.
A new way to look at what you eat: Let us say our body ?reconstructs? itself continuously. That means everything in the body, our muscle, tissues, cells, skin, is constantly being replaced by new ones
