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Neva Cherniavsky  
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 More options May 8, 3:42 pm
Newsgroups: rec.sport.disc
From: Neva Cherniavsky <ncher...@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 8 May 2008 12:42:18 -0700 (PDT)
Local: Thurs, May 8 2008 3:42 pm
Subject: Women, sports, and ACLs
NY Times magazine article - long, good.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/11/magazine/11Girls-t.html

Third page in:

But among all the sports injuries that afflict girls and young women,
A.C.L. tears, for understandable reasons, get the most attention. No
other common orthopedic injury is as debilitating and disruptive in
the short term — or as likely to involve serious long-term
consequences. And no other injury strikes women at such markedly
higher rates or terrifies them as much. Rachel Young, a former soccer
player at Virginia Tech who had to stop playing after two A.C.L.
ruptures and substantial cartilage damage in her right knee, told me
that young women she knew feared the injury but rarely talked about
it. “A.C.L. is like a curse word,” she said. “You just cringe when you
hear it.”


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