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 BlogKnee ACL Tear Recovery? Are You Ever the Same After an ACL Surgery?
Almost every patient I have ever met believes that their knee will be the same after surgical ACL tear recovery. The ACL is a major stabilizer of the knee and often injured in sports. Most patients believe that when they injure their ACL ligaments, they can just get a new one-no harm no foul. I’ve already…read more
ACL Surgery Rehab: Does Aggressive PT Make a Difference after ACL Surgery?
Does really aggressive ACL surgery rehab make a difference? As you may know, we’re not big fans of surgery to replace torn knee ACL ligaments. This is because the ligament repair bears no resemblance to the original equipment. In addition, recent research has shown that the chances of injuring the opposite, normal knee go way…read more
Knee ACL Injury Prevention: The Hip and Trunk Bones are Connected to the ACL. Who knew?
Given the old adage that “Prevention is worth a pound of cure”, what would be a good place to start for knee ACL injury prevention? This has been a great few years in the medical research for Orthopedics 2.0 philosophy. As you may know, our book Orthopedics 2.0 focuses on how our modern fixation on…read more
What Terrible Triad? An ACL Injury that’s Really an LCL…
I’m down in the Caymans again, so blogging and time slows down a bit. I did see a patient yesterday that I wanted to share. This is a British gentleman who injured his ACL skiing in Argentina last month. The surgeons he consulted wanted to replace the ACL and the MRI showed only a change in…read more
ACL Surgery Recovery: Re-injuries are Six Times more Likely for Athletes after ACL reconstruction
Can you injure the other knee during ACL surgery recovery? There was an interesting study presented at the American Academy of Orthopedic Sports Medicine last week that got little press. A physical therapist and colleagues studied the incidence rate of a second ACL injury in the 2 years following ACL reconstruction surgery and return to sports in a young,…read more
ACL Surgery or Not? That tis the Question…
ACL surgery or not? A little Shakespeare this morning on an important issue. Over the past few years we’ve seen MRI evidence of knee ACL healing with stem cell treatment. I’ve blogged on some of these knee ACL images showing improvements with just an injection of stem cells rather than surgery. Yesterday Dr. Schultz showed…read more
Does Knee Cartilage Get Better or Worse Following ACL Surgery Recovery?
ACL Recovery and Long Term Effects on Cartilage There are about 100,000 knee ACL tears each year in the United States and many of them get a new surgically implanted ACL knee ligament followed by a long ACL surgery recovery. As I’ve discussed, the new knee ACL ligament isn’t like the old equipment, in that it goes in at too…read more
Knee ACL Study Now Recruiting Patients
New Knee ACL study! Introducing the Regenexx-ACL study. If you have a torn knee ACL, you may be a candidate. We’ve been using injected stem cells to treat ACL injuries for years with good patient reported and MRI imaging results. However, we also want to test what we do using a more rigorous study design,…read more
