"You can prevent ACL injury. If you have a daughter who is playing basketball, soccer, handball..., then it is crazy if her team isn’t undertaking one of the evidence based warm-ups targeting lower limb injury prevention…” British Journal of Sports Medicine October 2008 42(10):483-484.
Cost of ACL Injuries to Society
• 200,000 injuries per year
• 60,000 – 75,000 surgeries per year
• Cost: $1.7 billion/year spent
• Greatest risk in high school and college (ages 15 – 25)
• More #’s of boys, but…………….
• More common (2 – 8 times) in female athletes
o 1/100 in high school
o 1/10 in college
Cost of ACL Injury to the Athlete
• Surgery: 6 – 36 months of rehab
• 77% have sports disability within 5 years
• 44% have activities of daily living disability within year
• Arthritis risk: > 90% within 20 years whether they have surgery or not!
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