sports
... The study was also designed to look at injury patterns and discover if those were related to specific sports such as basketball and volleyball. ... In this study one of the sports examined was volleyball. ... This may have been because there is less contact in volleyball than the other sports. ... ACL injuries occur more often in contact sports. The mechanism common to this injury are planting, pivoting and landing making these injuries much more common in basketball and soccer than in other sports which are less demanding in those areas.