Doctors react to Lindsey Vonn's plan to race on torn ACL
February 06, 2026
“An ACL injury in and of itself doesn't mean that you can't use and that you can't move your knee,” said Dr. Sean Baran, a sports medicine specialist at Western Orthopedics. “It's a stabilizer inside the knee and it's certainly a very important stabilizer. It's a rotational stabilizer, so for things that involve fast change of direction, cutting, pivoting, twisting, jumping, we classically think that the ACL is a necessary thing.”
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February 06, 2026