If you’re still picturing anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) tears in soccer as violent collisions or reckless tackles, the video says otherwise.
A new systematic review and meta-analysis in Sports Medicine takes a hard look at how these injuries actually happen — frame by frame — and the results are both clarifying and uncomfortable.
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