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  The New York Times

“Why A.C.L. Injuries Sideline So Many Athletes”

By GRETCHEN REYNOLDS

AUGUST 28, 2015 12:01 AM

Before I started to research I had a little prior knowledge about what happens when you tear your ACL. When you tear your acl that you will have to get surgery to put it back together and that you will not be able to play any of the sports that you like to play and it will also take a while to recover from this type of injury. This injury can keep you out for a season or the rest of your career depending on how bad it is. Most people are able to recover and get back to the sports they play. Many athletes have torn their ACL playing spots and it affects all the athletes, how they play during the recovery and the team. To come back from an ACL injury is very hard if you do not get surgery. Most people do get surgery when they tear their ACL’s so that they can be back on their feet as soon as possible. When you get the surgery they they put your ligament back together so that you can be up and playing as soon a possible. It takes place when you are training or in a game and your body goes one way and your knee goes the other and that is normally when you are at a high risk of tearing your ACL.. It can take place anywhere on the field or in training even if you have trip and ended up landing on your knee goes the other way as your body.

This article grabbed my attention because I play many sports and the name of the article is “Why A.C.L. Injuries Sideline So Many Athletes” so I looked into it and saw what types of things trigger an ACL tear so that I could do my best to avoid it. This article is to tell you what ACL injuries are all about, from how you tear it to how the recover is. In the beginning of the article it says that “tearing your ACL will sideline many athletes” because of the circumstances and what types of things that will happen if they can not recover from this serious injury. (you will either be taken out of a season or the game will end for you). In the end it talks about what types of thing happened inside of the knee while you are in rehabilitation. It talks about how clotting is good and/or bad what is happening with your joints and what parts it is putting back together. My understanding of this topic has grown drastically because of all the new things that I have just learned reading just one little article and there were so many good things in that article that would just help you understand a little more of what you already know and then it will grow your knowledge and understanding of how to and how to treat an ACL tear. Most of the article was very easy to understand but a con was that some parts were harder to decipher than others but the rest way not to hard and nothing was really that hard and know that my knowledge has been expanded so much I will be able to go on and learn more about this and how to prevent this from happening by doing the correct stretches and making sure to keep a healthy diet.

Works Cited

“Part of your knee.” Consumer Affairs. N.p., n.d. Web. 15 Jan. 2016. <http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news/acl-tears-becoming-more-common-among-high-school-athletes-031513.html>.

“Why A.C.L. Injuries Sideline So Many Athletes.” well.blogs. N.p., n.d. Web. 13 Jan. 2016. <http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/08/28/why-a-c-l-injuries-sideline-so-many-athletes/>.