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Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . ACL reconstruction with both hamstring and quadriceps tendon autografts yielded satisfactory functional ...

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July 24, 2003 — Outcomes are essentially the same for patellar tendon and hamstring tendon anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) repair, except that the former is associated with increased pain and the ...

Dr. Bill Sterett is a renowned specialist in Knee, Shoulder and Sports Medicine at Vail-Summit Orthopaedics & Neurosurgery. He is the Head Team Physician for the USWomen’s Alpine Ski Team. Dr. Sterett ...

2 Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 3 Department of Physiotherapy, Melbourne School of Health Sciences, The University of Melbourne, ...

The anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) is one of the most widely studied ligaments in the body. It is estimated that 100,000 ACL reconstructions are performed each year in the United States. There are ...

Patients receiving patellar tendon autografts have a statistically lower risk of revision as compared to patients receiving hamstring autografts, according to a study published in The American Journal ...

Medically reviewed by Jennifer Steinhoff, MD Key Takeaways ACL surgery involves reconstructing the torn ligament using a ...

Every year about 400,000 Americans tear their ACL ligament and for the past several decades there's pretty much only one way to fix the injury - if at all - reconstruction surgery. As our Health ...

Fibula fractures are among the quickest forms of leg break to heal, as the fibula are the smaller of the two lower leg bones that form the outer part of the shin and are not weight-bearing. These ...