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, ...

Transphyseal ACL Reconstruction in the Skeletally Immature Patient. ... (47 knees) underwent ACL reconstruction using hamstring allograft. Forty-seven knees were followed up for 11 to 96 months.

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.

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 ...

Hamstring tendons are also successfully used in ACL reconstruction, in the right patient. “Ski racers all love hamstring grafts to replace the ACL,” said Sterett.

Before his first pioneering surgery – completed on his son’s best friend in 2011 – the done thing had been to reconstruct the ACL by taking part of the ligament from the hamstring to replace it.

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 ...