Anterior cruciate ligament injuries in women have been the topic of intense conversation. ACL injuries occur more often in women than in mens. Since 1985 an increase of 50% of women that play basketball, soccer, and other have had ACL injuries. People are uncertain why there are more ACL torn in women than in men, but new research suggest that women's anatomical differences, for example as having wider pelvis; female hormones; shoe size; the size of the ACLs in women. There is also a difference between men and women in the intercondylar notch, which contain's the ACL. In addition to those example are the way women run and jump. Women run with straight rather then with their knees bent, and tend to hyperextend the knee when jumping.
Tim Hewett,PhD, director of research for the Cincinnati Sportsmedicine Research and Education Foundation, develope a training program for women to strengthen their hamstring muscles. This program showed that the women who did not train had twice as many ACL injuries than the women who did train. Incidentally the same group had 5 times the number of injuries than the men.
It seems the neither new knees braces or different designs of sneaks for women would prevent ACL injuries. The only thing that would lower the risk of ACL injuries would be changing the ways women athletes train. There are no certain programs that are injury proof but the injury rate would be lower. Early training before the actual sports training would improven the strength in women as well as in men.