The year of the Knee?

[cheesey]

Is it just me or does it seem that there is an unusual amount of knee injuries early in the season?   Marquette has suffered two players with knee injuries.  Louisville has lost David Padgett, I think for the rest of the season with a broken knee cap.  Now, UAB point guard Paul Delaney, their leading scorer last year, is out for the rest of the season with a torn ACL.  What gives?

[SoCalwarrior]

Sure seems that way.  My son tore his ACL a couple of months ago playing high school football, so my ears are tuned into knee injuries.  I mean, Milton Bradley tore his arguing with the ump.

[AlumKCof93]

Its Bush's fault

[77ncaachamps]

I personally think training has become too specific that muscles are being used in ways they have never been used before.

Forget the weight lifting for the legs, go run up a mountain.

[mviale]

call it "webber" knees. Patron Saint of Knee Injuries ~ Chris Webber

[BME to MD]

Didn't Milton Bradley's manager tear his ACL when he was trying to hold him back from the umpire? 

77- I visited the U of Florida's orthopedic institute this past summer and they run a summer program specifically designed to prevent knee injuries in teenage girls who happen to be extremely vulnerable to ACL tears.  You are right on that training should be closer to the actual conditions that the body will see in competition.  Jumping drills can be used to gradually increase the strength of the connective tissues around the knee but at the end of the day you get kids who are looking for the easy way which is intensive weight training and trainers who are to willing to look the other way.

[wadesworld]

I don't know the specifics about it, but I remember talking to a high school basketball coach I know (who also used to be a scout for the Bucks and played in the NBA for a while) and he said the new basketball shoes are part of the problem.  I'm not sure how or why they are causing problems but yeah, I remember him saying how shoes are made are causing kids to have more knee injuries.