What is the best way to prevent young female ACL injuries? This topic is something I'm very passionate about because a few years ago I tore my ACL playing sports. I became another female statistic in the female knee injury category. I went from never breaking a bone to experiencing one of the most tragic sports related injuries.  It is something that changed my life. Rehab was intense and looking back I grew a lot personally. This question is debatable because there are millions of ways to try to prevent this injury, but many sports scientists and doctors have their own superior opinions and beliefs on what they think is best. Some people will question if girls should even try to compete competitively. This topic doesn't question my morals or values because it's more of a lighter issue. I have a lot of personal experience with this and I think that makes me highly qualified to tackle this issue. I am passionate about this topic as well. Every time one of my friends tells me they have a knee injury, I always ask a million questions to try and understand what is exactly wrong with them and how it happened. My first source is 


This source is all about finding ways to prevent an ACL injury from happening, and how to handle it once it happens. It also explains that females are at a greater risk for this injury. No single exercise will prevent this injury, unfortunately. So it gives you a mix up of fool proof exercises at the most minimal level to help make a knee stronger. Obviously the writer is bias to which prevention exercises are the best. The author is very credible because they are simply stating facts and not saying one way to do something is better than the other. My next source is


This source's central claim is about prevention of ACL injuries in high school athletes. It talks about how it happens, how the number is rising, and what coaches don't know. Also about when ACL injuries happen, and how to rehabilitate them and prevent them in the future. This article would help my essay because it states the cause and effect of an ACL injury instead of just saying the after or before facts of prevention. It is all about ways of prevention and this writer puts his own ideas on which ones are the best. The more specific I can be with my evidence the better. A coach writes this with hands on experience with high school athletes so I would say he is highly credible in talking about high school injuries.  My final source is 


This article is about what causes an ACL injury in sports and how to stop that from happening. This one is unique because it gives a step-by-step formula on how to prevent an ACL tear and why. It was important how they put the steps in order, almost as a preference of what exercises they think are more important. I liked how specific it was and I think it would be perfect support for my question because it is so detailed. This article is written by a credible sports medicine expert who most likely see's ACL injuries in females every day.

I think my question is arguable because a lot of trainers will try to persuade you that doing squats and lunges is more preventable than doing other stretches. Will other trainers might view it the opposite way. That is the reason I am researching this, because I think there is such a wide variety of ways to prevent this, and there are so many exercises how does one know if they are even helping it? Most of my sources in general have all had their own personal opinions on how prevention/rehab should be done and that is very interesting to me. I think different perspectives of sources affect my own because those perspective generate new ideas and factors that I would've never thought about on my own. 
