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Julia Avila suffered what is called a contralateral ACL injury, meaning that she tore the ACL in one knee, and later on suffered the same injury in the opposite (contralateral) knee. One study from 2012 suggests that female athletes are 6 times more likely to suffer a contralateral injury than male athletes. Here's a link to that study. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4168893/

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