Looking back on the history of ACL surgery, one could conclude that the first decade was devoted to proving it was needed, the second to showing that it should be intra-articular, and the third to ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . NEW ORLEANS — A classic piece of orthopedic research showed ACL grafts need to withstand between 450 N and 500 N ...

Dear Doctors: I twisted my knee snowboarding. I thought it was just a sprain, but it turns out I have a partial tear in my ACL. My doctor says I need surgery. If I just wait and am very careful, won’t ...

In terms of gender and competitive sports, males decidedly have an advantage over their female counterparts when it comes to knee injury. Statistics show that female athletes who participate in ...

Surgeons making reconstruction choices for an injured ACL can consider both bone-tendon-bone grafts and hamstring autografts as equally viable options in regards to healing, researchers report.

About 400,000 people a year tear their knee ligament. Dr. Martha Murray has an idea for a less-invasive repair. Nearly three decades ago, a man on crutches changed the course of Dr. Martha Murray’s ...

Smith & Nephew SNN recently launched the UltraTRAC QUAD ACL Reconstruction Technique, which consists of the new QUADTRAC Quadriceps Tendon Harvest Guide System, X-WING Graft Preparation System and a ...

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 ...