ACL injuries are sidelining more young female athletes than ever before and North Texas researchers just got a million-dollar grant to do something about it.
Movement science researchers at Scottish Rite for Children have received a $1 million grant from Lyda Hill Philanthropies to fund, in part, a project that will look at how to reduce ACL injury risk in adolescent female athletes by tracking and syncing their menstrual cycles to a training program.
According to studies published in The American Journal of Sports Medicine, adolescent female athletes are at the highest risk of suffering an anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury: 29 times more likely than adult women and eight times more likely than their adolescent male counterparts…