Dallas Mavericks All-Star point guard Kyrie Irving tore his left anterior cruciate ligament and will be out for the rest of ...

Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries are common, especially among athletes. Each year, over 400 000 ACL reconstruction ...

ACL surgery involves reconstructing an injured anterior cruciate ligament using a tendon graft that comes from either a deceased donor or the patient themself. The surgery is performed ...

Options include stacked screw fixation, jumbo interference screw fixation, fixation using a large allograft bone plug, or bone grafting with ACL reconstruction as a combined or staged procedure.

The knowledge of ACL injuries continues to evolve and now - a new operation could make their recovery process a whole lot ...

ACL injuries in the knees are particularly ... However, by the sixth week following surgery, the graft can be as little as 50 percent as strong, therefore, when the athlete begins to feel good ...

In total, 16 models underwent immediate reconstruction after ACL rupture, 16 underwent surgery a week after injury, and 16 had no surgery. After four weeks, the researchers used advanced ...

Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries are common ... face issues like revision surgery and long-term osteoarthritis. This has spurred research into better graft materials, and artificial ...

Mild to moderate preoperative patellar tendinopathy may not significantly affect postoperative outcomes of ACL ...

Miach Orthopaedics announced today that the FDA cleared an expanded indication for the company's Bear implant for ACL tears.

Graft choice, hardware removal ... At present, revision ACL surgery should be considered a salvage operation, with the goal being to limit instability-associated pain and dysfunction.