ACL tears are an unfortunately common injury for athletes, especially youth athletes, and especially soccer players.
FACTS:
-Soccer has the highest risk of ACL injuries of all sports.
-ACL injuries cause the most time lost from competition in soccer.
-Thousands of ACL tears occur in the United States annually.
-Females are 6x more likely to suffer an ACL injury.
Soccer is the most popular team sport in the world, with hundreds of millions of players worldwide. Participation has continued to rise in the past few decades with the increase of organized sports leagues and normalization of female athletics. It is an unfortunate consequence that participation in sports leads to increased risk of injury. A further consequence is that injury often leads to costs. With an estimated cost of tens of billions of dollars worldwide, annually.
