ACL
Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) is a crucial component of knee stability, playing a vital role in controlling rotational movements and preventing the tibia from sliding out in front of the femur. Our series of blogs delves into the intricate anatomy of the ACL, its essential functions, and the latest research on maintaining ligament health and optimizing athletic performance.
Subscribe to the BlogACL Surgery Options: A College Football Player Decides to Go Non-surgical and Uses His Own Stem Cells
Are there effective ACL surgery options that are much less invasive? Can you ditch the ACL surgery altogether? BT is a college football player who injured his left ACL two years ago and unlike the other guys on his team, decided to go non-surgical. They all had their ACLs ripped out and replaced surgically, with grafts that…read more
Regenexx-ACL Procedure Featured in Outside Magazine
The Regenexx-ACL Procedure, our groundbreaking treatment for knee ACL tears using precise injections of the patient’s own stem cells was just featured in Outside Magazine. It’s a well-balanced piece of journalism for a new technology. As you may have guessed, Orthopedic surgeons are quite skeptical that they may have to give up 70-80% of ACL…read more
Read Your Knee MRI: Focus on ACL and PCL
When I completed the first 30,000 foot view version of Read Your Knee MRI, I realized that patients needed more information on what was normal and abnormal. A a result, I decided to produce a series of videos, each focusing on one topic. This video is the first of that series, focusing on the structures that…read more
Women’s Soccer ACL: Why Do Women Athletes Injure their ACL Ligaments More than Men?
It seems like every day we hear about some women’s soccer ACL injury. Female ACL injuries in sports are through the roof. 15 years ago, it was relatively uncommon to see a teenage girl come in with an ACL tear, now it seems like it’s common place. Much of this seems to be due to…read more
More Regenexx Reviews: One Patient’s Reminder of the Help She Got from the Regenexx-ACL Stem Cell Procedure
A reader asked for more Regenexx reviews and fewer big data downloads. While I love highlighting individual Regenexx reviews and patient outcomes, I also recognize that we’re some of the only providers who transparently publish the data from the hundreds and thousands of patients that we treat. However, this one was so special, I really…read more
ACL Surgery Healing without The Surgery!
A 16 soccer phenom injures her ACL and an MRI shows that it’s shredded. If she gets her knee ACL removed and a new ACL surgically installed, the research says that she’ll likely have significant arthritis by the time she’s 30. In addition, 2/3’rds of patients who have the ACL surgery don’t return to pre-injury…read more
Knee ACL Surgery Alternative: Regenexx-ACL Procedure Gets Great Winter Sports Write-up
We continue to be amazed as physicians by the before and after MRIs we see every day as a result of the knee ACL surgery alternative used by our practice every day: The Regenexx-ACL procedure. This exacting image guided procedure was just written up in a Vermont Winter Sports Paper, just in time for all…read more
Do’s and Don’ts of Knee ACL Injuries
I just contributed to an article on Expert Beacon on the “Do’s and Don”t’s” of ACL Surgery. We’ve seen tremendous results with our Regenexx-ACL stem cell procedure, which is the subject of a recent submission for publication in a research journal. 
