ACL surgery involves reconstructing an injured anterior cruciate ligament using a tendon graft that comes ... the center of the knee joint and needs to be attached to the bone above and below ...

Medical specialists weigh in on NBA players like Giannis Antetokounmpo, their knee injuries and the most commonly related leg ailments.

Although there is general consensus that surgical reconstruction has advantages over nonoperative treatment, surgical failure in skeletally immature children has resulted in a number of unanswered ...

Satisfactory patient-reported outcomes in patients treated with impaction bone grafting ... knee extension in anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction using a hamstring tendon affects improvement ...

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 ...

Results presented here showed ACL reconstruction with lateral extra-articular tenodesis led to a decrease in overall graft ...

ACL reconstruction carried out endoscopically with the patellar tendon graft was popularised last century in the late 1980s and early 1990s due to the advent of easily performed interference screw ...

For years, it was believed that a ruptured anterior cruciate ligament — the band of dense connective tissue inside the knee ...