Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . I use patellar tendon autograft as my main graft selection in young, high-demand, active patients. Bone-patellar ...

Whether it is from trauma or as the result of an athletic injury, anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) tears affect up to 200,000 Americans each year. However, data from the Shelbourne Knee Center’s ...

NEW ORLEANS — Bridge-enhanced ACL repair may have significantly higher failure rates at minimum 1-year follow-up vs. ACL ...

July 24, 2003 — Outcomes are essentially the same for patellar tendon and hamstring tendon anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) repair, except that the former is associated with increased pain and the ...

Osaka, Japan – You don’t have to be an avid sports fan to recognize the term “ACL injury.” Damage to the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) — a tendon in the knee — is prevalent even among amateur ...

The anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) is one of the most widely studied ligaments in the body. It is estimated that 100,000 ACL reconstructions are performed each year in the United States. There are ...

Orthocell successfully conducted a pre-clinical evaluation using CelGro® collagen rope to replace the need for an autologous tendon graft for ACL reconstruction Study showed host ligament stem cells ...

Introduction Central one third of patella tendon is used autograft for the ACL reconstruction. Although the clinical result using the patellar autograft is relatively satisfied, the donor site has not ...

Dr. Bill Sterett is a renowned specialist in Knee, Shoulder and Sports Medicine at Vail-Summit Orthopaedics & Neurosurgery. He is the Head Team Physician for the USWomen’s Alpine Ski Team. Dr. Sterett ...

In a recent study that appeared in the Journal of Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine, researchers reveal a new synthetic knee ligament graft developed for simplifying reconstruction ...