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Davies has had to deal with a torn ligament in her knee that has limited her training over the last month...
There are other problems as well. Tommy John ligament surgery, an elbow procedure named after the Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher who was the first to undergo it, used to be limited to players in their 20s and older, but it is now performed on kids as young as 12--not surprising if they started pitching excessively at age 8 or 9. Similarly, stress fractures in the backs of middle-school football and soccer players have nearly doubled over the past decade as a result of overtraining...
Then, as Kessler, who underwent surgery over the summer to repair a torn knee ligament, met with the press, still wearing her heavy knee brace, several more members of the Harvard women’s hockey team filed by with evidence of physical distress. Sophomore defender Nora Sluzas had a large bag of ice taped to her knee. Freshman winger Randi Griffin held some frozen H‘O to her hip region...
...than he was over the first half of the season, especially in decision-making.” Pizzotti vindicated Murphy in the early going of the season opener versus Holy Cross, tallying 126 yards on 10-of-13 passing, before succumbing to injury yet again, sidelined with a knee ligament strain he incurred on a scramble play. That pushed control of the pigskin farther down the depth chart, as sophomore Jeff Witt iced the win over the Crusaders and directed a crucial road win at Brown the following week.Pizzotti gamely returned sooner than expected—initial estimates...
Some injuries seem to distribute themselves differently between the sexes. Boys suffer concussions more often than girls do, no doubt because boys play more contact sports. But researchers are only beginning to understand why girls are more likely to tear their anterior cruciate ligament (ACL), a piece of connective tissue that helps hold the knee together. The difference can be dramatic. A recent study by researchers at the Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital in Manhattan determined that adolescent female athletes were eight times as likely to injure their ACL as their male counterparts...