What is an ACL?
Lacey Moreau
Deb Brillard
CO/M 1010-104
26 March 2014
Informative Speech 2
What is an ACL Injury?
Imagine being told you may never get to play sports again, it can be heart wrenching.
Having an anterior cruciate ligament injury can sound very scary. Learning about an ACL injury is beneficial, and understanding what and where the damage is will help to determine how to fix this injury. Having an ACL injury does not have to mean the end of a healthy active lifestyle, because ACL’s are the most common knee injury, they can be fixed with therapy or surgery.
I’ve played softball since I was five years old, when I had to have two knee surgeries in less than a year it was very devastating.
The information we will go over in the next few minutes will hopefully help everyone to understand the importance of ACL’s, how they are injured, and finally how they are treated and prevented.
The anterior cruciate ligament is one of four major ligaments’ that make the knee work. Let’s take a look inside the knee to see what it consists of. The knee joint has many components like bones, cartilage, ligaments, tendons, and muscles. We are going to focus more on ligament’s that make up the knee. All four of the following ligaments have a specific job in order for the knee to work properly. The medial collateral ligament (MCL) runs along the outside of the knee preventing it from bending out to far. The lateral collateral ligament (LCL) runs along the outside of the knee, preventing it from bending in to far. The next two ligaments depend upon each other to do their job correctly. The anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) is in the middle of the knee, it prevents the shin bone from sliding out in front of the thigh bone. Lastly is the posterior cruciate ligament (PCL) it forms an “X” shape with the ACL in the middle of the knee, it prevents the shin bone from sliding backwards under the thigh bone. As you can see these ligaments play very important roles in the knee.
Can you
Deb Brillard
CO/M 1010-104
26 March 2014
Informative Speech 2
What is an ACL Injury?
Imagine being told you may never get to play sports again, it can be heart wrenching.
Having an anterior cruciate ligament injury can sound very scary. Learning about an ACL injury is beneficial, and understanding what and where the damage is will help to determine how to fix this injury. Having an ACL injury does not have to mean the end of a healthy active lifestyle, because ACL’s are the most common knee injury, they can be fixed with therapy or surgery.
I’ve played softball since I was five years old, when I had to have two knee surgeries in less than a year it was very devastating.
The information we will go over in the next few minutes will hopefully help everyone to understand the importance of ACL’s, how they are injured, and finally how they are treated and prevented.
The anterior cruciate ligament is one of four major ligaments’ that make the knee work. Let’s take a look inside the knee to see what it consists of. The knee joint has many components like bones, cartilage, ligaments, tendons, and muscles. We are going to focus more on ligament’s that make up the knee. All four of the following ligaments have a specific job in order for the knee to work properly. The medial collateral ligament (MCL) runs along the outside of the knee preventing it from bending out to far. The lateral collateral ligament (LCL) runs along the outside of the knee, preventing it from bending in to far. The next two ligaments depend upon each other to do their job correctly. The anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) is in the middle of the knee, it prevents the shin bone from sliding out in front of the thigh bone. Lastly is the posterior cruciate ligament (PCL) it forms an “X” shape with the ACL in the middle of the knee, it prevents the shin bone from sliding backwards under the thigh bone. As you can see these ligaments play very important roles in the knee.
Can you