Basketball players, especially females, often suffer from knee injuries like anterior cruciate ligament tears or ACL tears and meniscus injuries.
Dr. Moira McCarthy and colleagues (2013) conducted an epidemiological study looking at the demographic data of female college basketball players. Research results showed that about 48% of the athletes suffered from an ankle sprain. Around one in five experienced a hand injury. Patellar tendinitis affected about 17% and 15% experienced an ACL Injury.
Around one out of 10 had some type of meniscus injury, followed by 7% with stress fractures and the same number suffering from concussions. Researchers concluded that the ankle was the most common place of bodily injury for elite female basketball players. For more details, see: https://ajs.sagepub.com/content/early/2013/02/01/0363546512474223.abstract
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