With competitive club teams in almost every sport, year-round play is status-quo for young athletes. But with the promise of championships and scholarships comes the greater chance of injury -- and it's a price more and more young athletes are paying.
Sixteen-year-old Rachel Clements is among that group.
"I ran at least once a day, I would work out at Seung Ni usually twice a day, and every night I would have basketball or rugby practice," said Rachel.
It's that type of high intensity sports training that landed her in physical therapy rehabbing a torn ACL. That's the Anterior Cruciate Ligament. Its job is to keep the thigh and shin bones in line and when it's torn it leads to major instability.
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