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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here. Thank you, everyone. We are not a sporty family and DD is still in a pre travel league (but aging out) so I haven’t heard this discussed at all. Go to know.

I’m having trouble understanding how common this is on a local travel level. How can I put the risk into perspective? Are most parents as concerned with this as with concussion? I may be totally wrong but for some reason I feel like with a single concussion I might have time to react and pull her, while with ACL once it happens it’s done. Am I misunderstanding?

Appreciate the responses so far.

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I have a daughter playing in college. She has experienced both an ACL tear and at least one concussion. Through her youth career, she has seen probably a dozen or so players she knows suffer torn ACL's across multiple teams. On her ECNL team, there were 3 over the half dozen years in that league. In our experience concussions were probably twice as prevalent, at least ones that were diagnosed. In college there have been three in the past two years. All anecdotal at best but the higher the level of soccer, the more stress involved with all of the joints however there is an aspect of overall fitness that may be moderating that slightly. I would expect a lower incidence rate for say NCSL.
Concussions are obviously more recoverable than ACL tears with most players being able to handle at least a couple before concerns about leaving the sport come up. That's a generalization of course since it depends on the severity and the athlete's response. For some, one severe one is enough. [/quote]

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