What’s New in ACL Surgery
ACL (anterior cruciate ligament) injuries are an all too common problem. Over the winter, we blogged about Lindsay Vonn and her troubles with her ACL surgery and subsequent reinjury. Lindsay is not alone. Over 200,000 patients suffer an ACL tear every year and more than half of them end up having at least one surgery. Throughout the 1990s and into the early years of the 21st century, the orthopaedic scientific community poured much of its research efforts into figuring out… [more]
ACL Injuries and Re-Injuries
[caption id="attachment_652" align="alignright" width="300"] Graft in place running from 10:00 to 6:00 position.[/caption] We recently tweeted about Lindsey Vonn's re-injury of her surgically reconstructed ACL (anterior cruciate ligament). It's still too early to tell how she will bounce back from this latest injury, but it gets harder and harder every time that joint is injured. Unfortunately, this is an all too common story. And worse yet, it's even more common in high school athletes. Women are 8 to 9 times… [more]
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