With the ACL graft in position, the graft must be solidly fixed in its new home. One common way to do this is to use a screw to hold the graft end within the tunnel. The screw can be made of metal ...

Wang JH, Tashman S. The relationship between graft tunnel position and in-vivo knee kinematics after ACL reconstruction. Paper 111. Presented at the 56th Annual Meeting of the Orthopaedic Research ...

The tracer uptake correlated significantly with the position and orientation of the ACL graft. A more horizontal femoral graft position showed significant more increased tracer uptake within the ...

Patients with ACL reconstructions generally do well ... sense of instability or givinig way of the knee despite correct graft position. If the main goal of surgery is to allow return to sports ...

If the graft is positioned using a trans-tibial technique, the position of the ACL is not perfect and the knee may never feel as stable as it was before the injury. Another factor that can ...

Whether the personality of individuals who do not complete their rehabilitation but RTS is associated with a greater risk of ACL graft rupture is something about which we are not in a position to ...

When the tendon is put into your knee, it’s known as a graft. Three types of grafts can be used with ACL surgery: Doctors typically use arthroscopic surgery on your ACL. This means they insert ...

Even though we don’t have a position statement to give clear guidelines ... These include “drilling more anatomic tunnels, new graft preparation techniques and blood flow restriction after ACL ...