ACL Tear Management Without Surgery In Greenville, SC

3 Saint Francis Drive, Ste 480 Greenville, SC 29601

Do you have an MRI-confirmed partial or complete tear of the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) and have been told surgery is your only option?

Perc-ACLR (percutaneous ACL repair) is a procedure that Regenexx physicians created to treat full and partial anterior cruciate ligament tears non-surgically. ACL tears are one of the more common knee injuries we treat, and many non-retracted full and partial tears can be treated in all but the most serious cases.

Repair of ACL tear without surgery

You have some important things to consider in making the best decision for your recovery, your return to sport or normal activity, and, ultimately, your long-term health. At Regenexx, our goal is to save your ACL, not replace it. The existing research and our significant expertise support the possibility for successful natural healing of ACL injuries.

The Per-ACLR is a highly precise X-ray guided injection of your own orthopedic bone marrow concentrate and can be completed in one day. It is far less invasive than surgery, and generally requires far shorter recovery times.

  Perc-ACLR Surgery
Procedure Invasiveness Much less Much more
Return to Sports 3 to 6 months 1 year
Keep your ACL Yes NO
Recovery Brace, much less extensive PT Crutches, brace, extensive PT

3 Saint Francis Drive
Ste 480
Greenville, SC 29601

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Dr. Jakubowicz is a New York native. Growing up in NYC, he played basketball recreationally and golf for the Bronx Science varsity team. His passion for golf continued through college at the University of Buffalo where he founded the golf club. He graduated college with a BS in Interdisciplinary Nutritional Science and then went on to graduate from New York Medical College.

Upon completion of his Internship in Internal Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical School’s New York Hospital in Queens, he went on to complete his residency in Anesthesiology followed by a Pain Medicine Fellowship at Harvard Medical School’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. He is double board certified in Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine and was honored with the Carol Warfield Prize in Pain Medicine during his fellowship.

From Boston, he moved back to NYC with his family and became the Co-Director at Total Pain Care in Paterson, NJ. He also served as St. Joseph’s University Medical Center’s

director for the resident program in chronic pain medicine. As director in collaboration with the Emergency Medicine department, he spearheaded and established the Acute and Chronic Pain Fellowship, the first of its kind in the nation.

In 2018, Dr. Jakubowicz moved to Greenville, SC, where he joined Piedmont Comprehensive Pain Management Group as an interventional pain physician. Since joining the practice, he has been involved in all aspects of comprehensive pain management, including being a sub-investigator in the research division. Dr Jakubowicz founded Upstate Regenerative Medicine in 2023.

He is excited to add orthopedic regenerative medicine and interventional orthobiologics to his comprehensive skill set to help improve his patient’s quality of life and get them “back to the top of their game”!

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Areas Treated

Cervical Spine (Not Upper Cervical or CCI)*, Elbow, Foot & Ankle, Hand & Wrist, Hip, Knee, Lumbar Spine, Shoulder, Thoracic Spine

*This provider is NOT authorized by Regenexx to treat the C0-C1 or C1-C2 levels of the neck or CCI (craniocervical instability).

How Does Regenexx Work?

At Regenexx, we invented a new approach to orthopedic care we call Interventional Orthopedics. This minimally invasive alternative to ACL surgery uses ultrasound-guided technology to precisely inject your own bone marrow concentrate — which contains stem cells — directly where it’s needed in the joint.

The cells in your bone marrow concentrate work at the site of your injury to promote your body’s natural healing abilities to treat the tear and avoid surgery1.

Regenexx For ACL Tears: Perc-ACLR

The procedure usually occurs over one day. First, your Regenexx doctor will extract a small amount of bone marrow using precise imaging guidance, a specialized extraction technique unique to Regenexx.

Once the marrow is drawn and processed by a Regenexx lab technician, you will have time to relax before the reinjection of the harvested bone marrow concentrate into your ACL, done three to six hours later.

Specialized local anesthesia is applied before the reinjection using fluoroscopy (real-time imaging guidance). MRI imaging along with X-ray contrast is used to carefully map the torn ligament during the procedure, providing a “roadmap” for your doctor to implant bone marrow concentrate into the damaged areas of the ligament.

After the procedure, your joint will be sore for one to three days, but the pain will become less severe and less frequent within five to seven days. Most patients note that they see improvement to their ACL within a month and can resume light activities and begin physical therapy.

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Watch a real patient’s Regenexx procedure

BEFORE and AFTER Procedure MRI Images

Take a look at the outcomes of patients who had a procedure instead of ACL surgery.

The BEFORE shows a torn ACL. The area should be a dark band going diagonally, as shown on the AFTER.

Knee MRI ACL Tear Before & After
Knee MIR ACL Tear Before & After

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