Dundee striker Simon Murray says he is overwhelmed by the support shown to him after he picked up an anterior cruciate ligament injury last weekend. Murray, 34, left the field on a stretcher after suffering the injury during the 3-0 League Cup defeat at ...

Teresa Salinas, a senior at Harlingen High School in Harlingen, Texas, has been a dancer since she was two years old. Three years ago, she joined the school’s drill team and, while practicing double turns, she ruptured her entire anterior cruciate ligament.

Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes has placed renewed attention on one of the most serious injuries in sports medicine: a torn anterior cruciate ligament (ACL). According to People, Mahomes returned to throwing drills while wearing a heavy-duty ...

Golden State Warriors forward Jimmy Butler III was recently seen working out amid his recovery from an ACL tear that he suffered in January.

The sound was unmistakable. So was the silence that followed. For teenage soccer player Aliya Jacob, that sound was a torn ACL — her first serious sports injury since she started playing at 3 years old. Young athletes and parents are often aware of the ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) -- Sofia Tepichin was about 30 minutes into her club soccer team practice in October when she spotted a fast-approaching defender. She tapped the ball away and hopped over the defender’s outstretched foot, came down awkwardly, and ...

Most people who tear their ACL describe the moment in a similar way: a sudden pop, sharp pain, and a knee that stops working almost immediately. That “pop” isn’t nerves ripping—it’s the sound and sensation of the ligament tearing. The ACL has ...

As the 2026 World Cup kicks off, one of soccer’s most dreaded injuries is already sidelining stars and reigniting questions about why anterior cruciate ligament, or ACL, tears are so common in the sport. During the 2023 Women’s World Cup, the large ...

University of South Carolina basketball player Chloe Kitts was sidelined by an ACL tear, a common injury among female athletes. ACL tears are three to six times more likely to happen to female athletes compared to their male counterparts. Several star ...

The athletes are still searching for their answers—and may be for a while, until the field of sports science fully catches up. At the highest levels of sport, injury is inevitable. But for women like Samuelson and Horston,