It's an alarming trend happening every day on playing fields and basketball courts: a young girl jumps, or pivots, and collapses in excruciating pain. Teenage girls are suffering serious knee injuries ...

In a sports medicine office in Towson after school one day recently, two newer members of the sorority “ACL” exchange pleasantries. “Oh, your bruise looks better already,” Kelli Kramer, 17, a Dulaney ...

Winter sports are in full swing and young athletes — especially girls — should take precautions to protect their knees. Adolescent girls whose bodies are changing are more likely to have knee pain ...

A new study in Pediatrics, the journal for the American Academy of Pediatrics, found that anterior cruciate ligament injuries are on the rise, and girls are more likely to get this injury than their ...