Among children and adolescents undergoing primary, transphyseal ACL reconstruction, graft type and postoperative knee laxity significantly predicted graft survival, according to study results.

In the near future, a randomized controlled trial on graft types and LETs, called the STABILITY II Trial, is expected to shed more light on the ideal graft choice for ACL reconstruction for each ...

It's every top athlete's worst nightmare: an anterior cruciate ligament injury. TU/e researcher Janne Spierings developed a ...

Anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction is a surgical tissue graft replacement of the anterior cruciate ligament, ... Tegner, ACL-RSI, and knee laxity parameters,” said Dr. Saithna.

AAOS 2006: Despite the thousands of published reports on ACL surgery, relatively few studies are of sufficient quality to be used as evidence-based medicine to validate the technique.

A 21-year-old college basketball player injures her left knee as she lands after scoring a lay-up. She experiences immediate swelling and is unable to continue playing. Examination in the locker ...

Tesa Medical’s CordaSet™ Rapid Graft Tensioning System for ACL Reconstruction and other procedures is successful in second cadaver study.

Introduction Not much is known about biologic reactions at ACL graft insertion sites. SPECT/CT is a hybrid imaging modality, which combines a 3D single photon emission computed tomography and a ...

Wright, RW, Dunn, WR, Amendola, A, et al. Risk of tearing the intact anterior cruciate ligament in the contralateral knee and rupturing the anterior cruciate ligament graft during the first 2 ...