Traditional bone-patellar tendon-bone and hamstring tendon ACL grafts are not without limitations. A growing body of anatomic, biomechanical and clinical data has demonstrated the utility of ...

A study of NCAA Division I football players revealed persistent atrophy in the quadriceps and gastrocnemius muscles 2 years ...

Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL): A key ligament in the knee that ... that can result from bacteria entering the joint space. Autograft: A graft taken from the patient's own body, often used ...

Injuries of the ACL with open physes (Figure ... Shelbourne and colleagues [16] published their results using a patellar tendon autograft in adolescents with open growth plates and transphyseal ...

Participants: Seventy-three individuals with complete unilateral rupture of the ACL scheduled for reconstruction with a bone-patellar-bone autograft were included in the study, from where 60 were ...

Medically reviewed by Maria M. LoTempio, MD The anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) is one of four primary ligaments that ...