Athletes With Smaller Anterior Cruciate Ligaments May Be More Susceptible To Injury

Saturday, September 19, 2009 - 00:28 in Health & Medicine

Comparing images of the knees in people who did and didn't have previous injuries to the anterior cruciate ligament suggests that people who tore their ACLs are more likely to have a smaller ligament than do similarly sized people who have never injured a knee. Researchers calculated the total volume of the ligaments based on magnetic resonance images of human knees. The ACLs among those with previous injuries were, on average, about 10 percent smaller than were ACLs among those without an injury.

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