It’s no secret that young women athletes are suffering an epidemic of crippling injuries to their anterior cruciate ligaments (ACLs), one of the four strong bands of tissue that connect the leg bones at the knee joint. A decade of research and books such as Michael Sokolove’s “Warrior Girls” have shown that our daughters are three to eight times as likely as our sons to tear an ACL.
This rest of this January 28, 2010, article by Lenny Bernstein can be read at the Washington Post.
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