Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL)
Disease Information
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Children's Orthopedic Center provides comprehensive assessment, treatment and follow-up care to children who have orthopedic injuries. | |
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Boston Children's Hospital 300 Longwood Avenue Fegan 2 Boston MA 02115 |
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If your child participates in contact sports, he may be more prone to having ACL injuries. The specialists in the Sports Medicine Program are committed to helping stabilize and re-strengthen your child's ACL, and preventing these types of injuries in the first place through a sports clinic that teaches young athletes how to take proper care of their bodies. | |
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Children's Hospital Boston 319 Longwood Avenue Boston MA 02115 |
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Children's Mininder Kocher, MD, MPH on ABC World News!
ABC World News with Diane Sawyer reports on ACL tears in young children and how the serious injury is becoming increasingly common at a younger age. Children’s Mininder Kocher, MD, MPH, explains the injury and 8-year-old Children’s patient, Caleb Seymour, and his parents talk about his experience tearing his ACL playing football. Read More!
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