Athletes face tough decisions after ACL injuries: use their own tissue or donor grafts? Both have risks, and many carry the ...

Because of the growing number of ACL reconstructions, ACL revision surgery has become increasingly common over the past decade. The proper execution of this procedure requires precise preoperative ...

Lateral meniscus posterior root tears found in revision ACL surgery. Dipali Pathak. 713-798-4710. Houston, TX - Feb 19, 2021. Share this article. Content. An anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) tear can ...

According to published results, patients who underwent re-revision ACL reconstruction had low rates of return to sport at their pre-injury level despite improvements in stability and patient ...

Published results did not show a high failure rate among patients who underwent meniscal repair with revision ACL reconstruction at 2-year follow-up, with failure rates of less than 10% for medial ...

Patients needing revision ACL surgery are a bit more of a complex group. There may already be some early degenerative changes in the knee because they’ve had prior surgery.

The researchers examined patients who underwent primary ACL reconstruction with the hamstring tendon or bone-patellar tendon-bone autografts and looked for revision surgery within 24 months of the ...

Results 8 studies (300 revision ACL reconstructions and 413 primary ACL reconstructions) were included in the meta-analysis. Patients who had had revision surgery reported inferior Lysholm Knee ...

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Indiana University star quarterback Kurtis Rourke will undergo ACL revision surgery Wednesday, Jan. 8, his agent told NFL Network's Tom Pelissero. Rourke, who declared for the NFL ...

Dr. Pat Smith, an orthopedic surgeon at NCH, said, “Taking care of athletes, we would see these high numbers of re-injuries or re-tears, and that is not good because a second surgery for ACL ...

Young athletes who have anterior cruciate ligament surgery are more likely to need an additional surgery if they received a hamstring graft compared to a bone-patellar tendon-bone graft, ...