“A torn anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) is among an athlete’s most-dreaded injuries, often requiring surgery and months of rehab…While being tackled in football or hurtling into an embankment on an icy ski course can tear this major knee ligament, most athletes actually “do themselves in”–they don’t collide with a person or object, they end up injuring themselves when they land off-balance during a jump or run.

But why?

…scientists have shown that differences in brain function may be to blame, predisposing some of us to “noncontact” knee injuries…” Full Slice

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