“ACL reconstruction results are highly correlated ... In Sweden, about 98% of orthopaedic surgeons use hamstring grafts, according to Fjeldsgaard. But in Norway, the bone-patellar tendon bone ...

Back to Healio SAN DIEGO — Patients who underwent ACL ... hamstring tendon repair with a cohort of 90 patients who had the same injury and underwent patellar tendon repair using the same ...

Sigman has performed more BEAR procedures than almost anyone in the world. The surgery was FDA-approved in 2020 for people 14 and older, but now it's available to school-age kids, as young as 7 and 8, ...

Although there is general consensus that surgical reconstruction has advantages ... Simonian and colleagues recommend using the hamstring tendons through a central tibial tunnel and a normal ...

Participants were under the age of 25, undergoing ACL reconstruction using a hamstring graft and at high risk for re-injury. Half the participants were randomized to receive standard of care ...

Choosing the best replacement ligament for surgery is one key to ACL reconstruction success. A new study found that with a failure rate of almost 24 percent, the use of cadaver replacement ...

Reconstruction of the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) is a surgery designed to restore ... and make a decision about which type of anesthesia to use during surgery. During these meetings, it ...

and an innovative procedure is now approved for use on the youngest patients. To repair an ACL, surgeons typically borrow tissue from another part of the body, like a hamstring or quadriceps ...