By using his toes to push off the ground, he contracted his calfand thus tightened his Achilles. Incidence of noncontact ACL injuries - Human Kinetics In order to keep an understanding of injury mechanism closer, there is one more detail noticed in landing movement. Knee hyperextensionsor over-straightening, leading to a bending of the leg in the opposite directioncan cause the lower leg to shift forward with respect to the thigh. Cognitive function and other risk factors for mild traumatic brain injury in young men: nationwide cohort study. Source publication Influence of Age, Gender, and. Plus grass is a softer surface to land on for hard hitting sports like lacrosse and football, which could lead to less injuries in those sports as well. 2. The contact sports in the study were football, wrestling, ice hockey, soccer, basketball, and lacrosse. Importantly, he also points his toes out and away from the play. Any cost-benefit analysis of the issue is incomplete if it doesnt include a close look at the billions in annual damages caused by contact sports-related injuries. Tagovailoa may have been allowed back into that first game because his stumbling was attributed correctly or not to a back injury, not a brain injury. All of this together the lack of rest, the congested preseasons, the potentially higher workload can lead to increased risk of injury for athletes, Simon said. Stop stretching it out." However, some basic anatomical knowledge provides insight into the underlying mechanisms of two recent examples of minimal-to-no contact ACL tears in the NFL. I never though that the two different surfaces could cause such bad injuries but now after reading this I am remembering one of my good friends tearing his acl on a turf field. Elsewhere, sudden stops, plants and cuts may injure the ACL if the momentum and direction imbalance mentioned in the previous section results. In the winter, grass becomes muddy and icy. If you cant produce that evidence, the guilty party will walk. Football accounts for over half of these at 26,000 fewer injuries, including 4,400 fewer concussions. Plus, by strengthening glutes we can also save ACL from injury because hams will not be overloaded/overtired by doing hip extensions like a prime extensors, and we know that hams (along with other hip extensors and external rotators, and m. vastus medialis) play important role in ACL protection from tearing. If you are familiar with ACL anatomy, its logical that position described above (congenital you can fix it in childhood; or made during movement poor motor control and strength) promises high injury risk (ACL could strain, partial rupture or tear by overload force gravity, external load or both at worst).