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Why Do ACL Injuries Spike in the Days Before a Period? The Ligament Laxity Research
Published July 14, 2026
If you tear an ACL without contact, the odds that it happened during a specific window of your menstrual cycle are not random. A body of work stretching back over two decades has found that non-contact ACL ruptures cluster in the pre-ovulatory and ovulatory phases, when estrogen peaks. Wojtys and colleagues, working out of the University of Michigan, were among the first to document this pattern, showing that injuries occurred disproportionately during the follicular and ovulatory phases rather than being evenly spread across the cycle (see [1]). Later reviews pooling multiple studies reached a similar conclusion: the risk is not flat month to month.
