ACL reconstruction with hamstring tendon graft may yield decreased knee flexion strength vs. reconstruction with patellar tendon graft. Outcomes were assessed at a minimum follow-up of 18 years.

TORONTO — The 2-year results of ACL reconstruction performed in 29 children using their parents’ living donor hamstring tendon allografts showed 94% of patients could return to strenuous ...

Surgeons commonly use hamstring autografts in ACL reconstruction. A typical graft is a 4-strand graft about 8 mm in diameter, but sizes can vary widely according to individual patients.

The Bear Moon study, which is evaluating the Bear ACL implant against autograft bone-patellar tendon-bone ACL reconstruction, completed enrollment, according to a July 7 news release. The study, ...

AAOS 2006: Despite the thousands of published reports on ACL surgery, relatively few studies are of sufficient quality to be used as evidence-based medicine to validate the technique.

Objective We performed a randomised controlled trial (RCT) in patients undergoing ACL reconstruction (ACLR) using either quadriceps tendon graft (QT) or semitendinosus/gracilis hamstring (STG) graft.

Children as young as 7 now approved for innovative new ACL repair surgery 02:09. An increasing number of young people are tearing their ACLs, and an innovative procedure is now approved for use on ...

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 ...

Innovative ACL reconstruction now approved for patients as young as 7 years old. Story by Mallika Marshall, MD ... like a hamstring or quadriceps tendon, to reconstruct the ligament.

The study was designed to show CelGro® collagen rope was equal to, or better than the use of an autologous tendon graft (such as hamstring) for ACL reconstruction, which can result in donor site ...