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[QUOTE="rubymae4, post: 4823217, member: 1467"]
I read the research on ACL injury prevention for women—one important finding is that ACL injury prevention programs work better for preventing ACL injuries in younger athletes (Before college). It’s still effective in college-age athletes, but less so.

This gives some support that athletes are heading to college with some predispositions that college trainers have to manage. Some may come in with strong injury prevention program experience and others without. So even if it’s not a lingering injury from high school, the athlete may have missed out on crucial prevention program training, thereby increasing her risk for injury.

I suspect (hypothesize) that middle/high school is the critical time to train the developing body to move correctly. By the time athletes get to college, ingrained body mechanics are tougher to change.

Most elite female athletes seem to recover from ACL injuries and pick up where they left off. But some do not. Either way, it’s always hard to see another athlete go down with an ACL injury.
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