Early muscle training linked to lower knee risk for girls

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Exercises aimed at preventing knee injuries in athletes are most effective when they’re started young, according to a new analysis of clinical trial results. The new study, published in the American Journal of Sports Medicine, looked at more than a dozen other studies and found that female athletes who started so-called neuromuscular training routines by about age 14 were 72 percent less likely to hurt their knee ligaments than those who did not get the training until they were college-age. …