Mick Hughes:
Sports & Exercise Physiotherapist
M. Sports Physio, B. Physio, B.Ex. Sci.

I had an interesting discussion over on LinkedIn recently about how ACL injuries occur despite the player performing the same change of direction/pivoting action "millions" of times. And it's a fair point: How can a player pivot without injury 1000 times in a season, yet the 1001st time that they pivot it ruptures their ACL? I don't know the answer; but sometimes an ACL injury is simply bad luck, and you'll drive yourself crazy trying to come up with an answer as to why it oc