Word: kneeing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Your knee is bent,” he added, “and you’re not pivoting [like a basketball player]. Hockey is a sport where some people [with torn ACLs] can do well...
AMHERST, Mass.—Thrifty with words as usual, assistant captain Tom Cavanagh described that early January practice when he slid, feet-first, into the boards during practice and tore the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) in his left knee thus: “I knocked something loose...
According to the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Sport Medicine website, “The ACL...stabilizes the knee to allow pivoting, twisting, and jumping sports.” When the ACL is torn, then, “the knee may feel unstable and give out. The knee usually swells a great deal immediately (within two hours). Over the next several hours, pain becomes more severe and it becomes difficult to walk...
...Initial swelling precluded the ACL diagnosis, and so, with what was deemed a hyperextended knee, Cavanagh quietly went about his business...
...tried just be fair, and to say that whatever decision that he had come to, I would back him up 100 percent,” Donato said. “I would understand if [Cavanagh, a San Jose draft pick] wanted to go get his knee fixed now and get better for the next hockey at the professional level...