24 patients (27%) were involved in sports and the most common sport played was football (n =10, 42%). The most common graft used for primary ACL reconstruction was hamstring tendon in 39 patients (54% ...

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 ...

The anterior cruciate ligament ... ACL reconstruction (ACLR). One significant area of research has been the effectiveness of lateral extra-articular tenodesis (LET) in reducing the risk of graft ...

Although there is general consensus that surgical reconstruction has advantages ... Another question is what is the best graft choice? Should the bone-patellar-tendon bone graft be avoided to ...

Graft failure was the second most common ... room at NYU/Hospital for Joint Diseases following ACL reconstruction using patellar tendon is 8%. The most common complications were loss of motion ...

An ACL injury occurs when the ACL suffers a partial or complete tear during an activity A surgery can help manage long-term ...

At times, while playing or simply with a past injury resurfacing, your knee may move out of its place, causing an injury or “tear” to your ligament ... require ACL reconstruction for this ...

The anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) is ruptured 300,000 times ... we almost always add an extra articular reconstruction (a graft on the side of the knee) to support the ACL reconstruction.

Why are female athletes more susceptible to knee ligament injuries than ... risk of increased knee laxity and graft rupture after surgical ACL reconstruction, and generally have less-successful ...

Each year, over 250,000 individuals in the United States will suffer an anterior cruciate ligament ... addition to the ACL reconstruction, he often performs a lateral extra-articular tenodesis (LET) ...