On the day of your surgery, you will arrive at the hospital or surgical center and check in, which will involve signing a surgery consent form. After that, you will go to a pre-operative room. When ...

Management is controversial—largely guided by local traditions and surgeon preferences (ie, dogma, eminence-based). The prevailing clinical dogma, in many centres, has been to undertake early ACL ...

Accelerometer-based rehabilitation may improve recovery outcomes at 1 year after ACL reconstruction. Use of an accelerometer to track postoperative activity levels may be preferred vs. self-tracking.

“Young patients typically require ACL reconstruction for this injury,” says Dr Dhawan. He then adds that for older individuals, treatment may involve isometric knee exercises without the need ...

One hundred and six studies contributed to 1 of 35 meta-analyses (n=59 552). After ACL injury/reconstruction, very low-certainty evidence suggests females/women/girls had inferior self-reported ...

Beyond these situations, hardware removal will be required before proceeding with revision ACL reconstruction. Curettes and picks are used to expose screws, which are removed with universal ...

Early surgical management, often regarded as the primary management strategy, has recently been shown to have similar outcomes when compared with an initial rehabilitative approach followed by ...

Objective: After anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction (ACLR), patients undergo specific changes in body and specific brain functions, which stem from neuroplasticity. In this study, we employed ...

and that is not good because a second surgery for ACL reconstruction, what we call revision surgery, never does as well as a successful primary or first-time ACL surgery.” Smith is the director ...

The anterior collateral ligament (ACL) and medial collateral ligament (MCL) are two of the four main ligaments that help stabilize the knee. The other two are the posterior cruciate ligament or PCL ...

If you are a sports enthusiast, particularly a footballer or a gymnast, you're likely to have heard about an ACL injury. The Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) is a ligament in the knee that ...