Female athletes are up to eight times more likely to suffer knee injuries during their careers than males, and now researchers may be closer to understanding why. A recent study of 10 female and 10 ...

A recent study found that 85 women who received a gender-specific implant in one knee and a standard prosthesis in the other knee found no clinical benefits of the gender-specific knee. A ...

Sixteen-year-old Phoebe Papademetriou was playing defensive midfield during an intense high-school varsity soccer game last October when she spotted the ball making its way toward her. She shifted her ...

Knee Issues in Women: While knee problems affect both genders, studies indicate that women are significantly more susceptible to knee injuries, with a likelihood of two to eight times higher than men.

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“My knee kind of popped,” my daughter said one day in January after volleyball practice. She’d jumped to spike a ball, landed awkwardly, fallen to the ground and had to be assisted off the court. Her ...

Female athletes are much more likely than males to endure serious anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) knee injuries, according to Loyola University Medical Center orthopedic surgeon Dr. Pietro Tonino. Dr ...