Traditional bone-patellar tendon-bone and hamstring tendon ACL grafts are not without limitations. A growing body of anatomic, biomechanical and clinical data has demonstrated the utility of ...

Medically reviewed by Jennifer Steinhoff, MD ACL surgery involves reconstructing an injured anterior cruciate ligament using ...

Medically reviewed by Maria M. LoTempio, MD The anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) is one of four primary ligaments that ...

The gold standard for ACL reconstructive surgery is to obtain an ideal outcome for the patient for the rest of their life, not for the short period of their career. This is more likely to be seen ...

Objective: Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries are the most ... the selection of the graft tissue, graft placement, and whether to use the transtibial, far anteromedial portal, or tibial ...

Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL): A key ligament in the knee ... result from bacteria entering the joint space. Autograft: A graft taken from the patient's own body, often used in surgical ...

Grafts to replace the ruptured ligament don’t naturally integrate ... can manufacture at scale at medical-grade quality. Despite ACL tears being a common injury, the few grams of material ...

and the graft must be securely fixed. Options include stacked screw fixation, jumbo interference screw fixation, fixation using a large allograft bone plug, or bone grafting with ACL ...

The Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) is a ligament in the knee ... as these overstress the graft and cause problems. To avoid re-injury, avoid twisting or abrupt direction changes.

Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) injuries are one of the most burdensome injuries in sports ... Research indicates of those that do return to sport, up to 1 in 4 athletes will re-rupture their graft, ...