After 30 years of analysis, it’s nonetheless a thriller why girls footballers are 5 to eight occasions extra prone to endure a career-threatening anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) damage than their male counterparts.
For physicians akin to Joan Carles Monllau, one in every of Europe’s high orthopaedic surgeons who has operated on double Ballon d’Or winner Alexia Putellas’s ACL damage, in addition to Barcelona males’s star Gavi and lots of different high gamers, biology stays the figuring out consider why girls are extra liable to ACL accidents.
Putellas, a key participant for each Barcelona and Spain, spent virtually a…