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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As the parent of a kid who had an ACL tear playing soccer, my advice for a player serious about playing in college is to avoid HS soccer, and to not just go through the ortho's rehab, but also follow-up with an ACL prevention stint of physical therapy.

HS soccer has such a broad range of skill levels and typically boils down to long-ball and rough physical play that the injury risk is greater than at the club level.  Also, few, if any, college coaches are coming to a hs game so it won't impact your kid playing in college.

I'm admittedly making a big assumption here about the cause of your child's injury  but stats show a huge percentage of reinjury and injury to the non-injured knee occurs within the month or two of restarting playing and the suspicion is that is due to the imbalance between the knees. The typical rehab program is just to get an injured person up and moving normally again.  For a top athlete, you need more and a good ACL prevention/rehab program will test your kid for imbalances, and train them to get rid of those imbalances. [/quote]

47-year old former college soccer player and multiple marathon runner throughout my 30s-40s--[b]the imbalance comment nailed it.[/b]

From HS I was e[b]qually training quads and hams.[/b]  To his day I perform pretty much the same weight/lifting routine to stabilize the knees which I credit leaving me with zero injury and zero knee pain at close to 50.  Of course--some things are inevitable---like my sister's foot getting caught in taller grass and the knee going the other way :shock: --career-ending.

If your daughter is tall--that is also an issue. I was 5'4" in my playing years---grew an inch after:)--but the taller players often are more prone to those knee injuries.

I did tear an ankle Freshman year in HS---and that is the one I continually roll as an adult---but thankfully there is never pain.  I do a lot of balance exercises to build it up.[/quote]

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