No one could predict in 1972 that female athlete non-contact ACL (knee) injuries would be a major sports medicine challenge forty years later. This challenge does not have to happen and the ‘silent epidemic’ can be minimized with safe and age-appropriate training for all female athletes, not just the elite athletes.

Warren Potash wrote They’re Not Boys – Safely Training the Adolescent Female Athlete™ to help parents and teen female athletes understand that young female athletes have a higher risk of injury, why the risk exists, and that proper lower body training can minimize the risk.

Since the introduction of Title IX legislation almost 40 years ago with..

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