Playing Through Pain: How Tiger Did It, and Why He Went Under the Knife

Tiger Woods, a golfer whose swing is all about rotation, played championship golf for a year with a torn ACL, a ligament that keeps leg bones in their proper place during intense rotation. In this piece in the Scientific American, Mininder Kocher, associate director of the sports medicine division at Children’s Hospital in Boston, suggests that for most recreational golfers, a torn ACL would matter not at all, but a powerful rotator like Woods needs to twist with confidence. Read more from Mininder Kocher in the Scientific American.