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Article: Serious knee injuries on the rise: Women have problems more often than men.(Sports)(Fitness Report)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- October 18, 1998
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When she heard her left knee pop while playing basketball four years ago, Katie Smrcka-Duffy thought it was no big deal. After all, she was playing defense and not cutting or planting very forcefully.
"It was just a fluke," she said. "I thought it was just a sprain, but a few days later I couldn't straighten my leg. It hurt like hell."
The pop turned out to be a torn anterior cruciate ligament, and Smrcka-Duffy, a former guard for Madison High School in Vienna who will play for Georgetown this season, became one of thousands of women athletes who suffer a severe knee injury each year.
With more females playing sports like soccer and ...