The luckless Murray, 27, has recovered from a cruciate knee ligament injury suffered in pre-season training.
He was stretchered off with ligament damage during Glasgow Warriors' 1872 Cup first-leg win over Edinburgh.
Boone infamously tore his anterior cruciate ligament and was forced to have surgery to repair it.
Lafferty had been carried off with suspected knee ligament damage during Rangers' game against PSV Eindhoven.
Researchers are studying whether athletes are quadriceps-dominant, ligament-dominant, leg-dominant or favor his or her trunk.
The difficulties started in 2003 when a knee ligament problem kept him out for nine months.
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Muscular, ligament, knee, hips and thigh damage accounted for almost half of all injuries.
Lock Alun Wyn Jones will also have recovered from an ankle ligament injury in time.
The blind-side suffered medial knee ligament damage in Leicester's Heineken Cup win over Viadana on Saturday.
The 27-year-old centre-back suffered ankle ligament damage and will add to Jones' Bluebirds lengthy injury list.
Kemp diagnosed Noon's injury as a grade two strain to a ligament in his left knee.
The main thing was it wasn't the flexor tendon, the ligament or anything like that.
In 2011, he went down with an elbow injury and underwent Tommy John ligament replacement surgery.
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The on-loan Arsenal player suffered suspected medial ligament damage in Thursday's Europa League defeat by PSV.
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Meanwhile, midfielder George Boateng could be out for up to three months with knee ligament damage.
The Ireland flanker tore the medial collateral ligament in his right knee in training on Monday.
The top pick in the 2009 amateur draft, he underwent elbow ligament-replacement surgery on Sept. 10, 2010.
"I was looking forward to coming up against the Aussies but the ligament's completely ruptured, " he said.
Meanwhile, midfielder Joe Allen has had his loan at Wrexham cut short after suffering ankle ligament damage.
Van Persie is recovering from surgery on an ankle ligament problem sustained playing for his country last November.
The England scrum-half has damaged his anterior cruciate ligament (ACL), which could mean six months on the sidelines.
Simon Jones wrenched almost every ligament in his knee fielding in the first Ashes Test in November 2002.
The New Zealander ruptured his right anterior cruciate ligament during Saturday's 16-16 Guinness Premiership draw at Newcastle Falcons.
He underwent surgery last December to repair a ruptured ligament in the middle finger of his right hand.
Meanwhile, Henson has been ruled out of action for up to six weeks with an ankle ligament injury.
Revis tore the anterior cruciate ligament in his knee last September against Miami, and underwent surgery the next month.
The 29-year-old suffered a grade three tear to his medial knee ligament in Sunday's 35-10 win over London Welsh.
He missed the 2006-07 season with a stress fracture of the back and then a cruciate knee ligament injury.
Alderson said the team could not rule out the possibility of ligament damage.
The striker played 25 minutes for the reserves this week - his first game since tearing a cruciate ligament.
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