Sports Medicine

Performance of NFL wide receivers, running backs post-ACL injury falls by one third

Published in Physician Law Weekly, December 20th, 2006

The good news for NFL players who sustain an injury to their anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) is that they'll likely play again in the NFL. The bad news is, at least one third of them will return with diminished performance on the field, concludes a study in a recent issue of The American Journal of Sports Medicine.

"Although there have been over 2000 articles on the ACL in the past 20 years, only a few have focused on the pro player," writes author James L. Carey, MD (Dr. Carey is now affiliated with Vanderbilt Sports Medicine, Nashville, Tenn.) and colleagues from the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine,...

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Source: Physician Law Weekly (2006-12-20)

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