(WFRV) – Because of the number of high-profile NFL players who suffered season-ending knee injuries this year — Micah Parsons and Tucker Kraft, for example — it may have felt like ACL injuries were happening more often.

Football players are under more strain than ever, and the injuries continue to accumulate. Some are simple strains due to the intensity of the football calendar, but in others, there have been season-ending problems.

It was a terrifying sight: legendary Olympian Lindsey Vonn crashing during the women's downhill run. And crashing along with her? The storybook ending to her Winter Olympics comeback. Vonn initially retired from skiing in 2019.

According to data presented at the Radiological Society of North America Annual Meeting, ACL tears were seen with higher frequency in men vs. women in patients who presented for MRI with a primary complaint of knee pain.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mica Riley has torn her ACL three times and says the emotional toll of the injury is "wildly underestimated." (Courtesy of Mica Riley) Mica Riley knows this terrain firsthand. The ...

From recovery timelines to rehab protocols, a physical therapist shares everything you need to know about overcoming ACL injuries. Unfortunately, ACL injuries are far too common, with between 100,000 and 200,000 ACL tears occurring every year, according to ...