The screws from ACL surgery may cause pain in the knee due to the type and placement of the screws, surgical errors, and more. Learn about the symptoms of ACL screw pain and how to treat it.

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 ...

They’ll place screws in the tunnels to hold the graft in place. It serves as a sort of bridge that a new ligament will grow on as you heal. It can take months for a new ACL to grow in fully.

CARDIFF, Wales — Tapered stainless steel screws used for anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction had higher pullout strengths than nearly identical screws with nontapered shafts, according to ...

Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) rupture is a common sporting injury. Reconstruction of the ruptured ACL is accepted as standard treatment for athletes as it allows them to resume sporting activities.

ACL reconstruction is a widely accepted treatment for patients who have instability symptoms from ACL deficiency and desire to resume activity. Surgical reconstruction may be appropriate, for many ...

Background The decision as to whether or not an athlete is ready to return to sport (RTS) after ACL reconstruction is difficult as the commonly used RTS criteria have not been validated. Purpose To ...

To test the hypothesis that a template system for harvesting bone-patellar tendon-bone (BTB) would cause fewer postoperative patellofemoral problems than freehand graft harvests, two groups of 20 ...