In an interesting article by Eggerding et al,1 the authors conducted a cost-utility analysis for two treatment strategies for patients who sustain an anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) tear; early ACL ...

Objectives: To examine (a) return to competitive sport within 12 months of anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction, (b) maintenance of competitive participation at follow up, and (c) the ...

Electrical brain stimulation could be the key to getting athletes back on track following anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) ...

A 19-year-old varsity baseball player presents with a torn anterior cruciate ligament (ACL ... and 29 patients eventually had a ligament reconstruction. Among the 29 players who underwent ...

Objective: Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries are the most common ligament injury in the United States. These injuries can be career ending for athletes and severely disabling for all ...

For years, it was believed that a ruptured anterior cruciate ligament ... in a type of surgery called a reconstruction, by ...

Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) injuries are one of the most burdensome injuries in sports, particularly in adolescent and youths. Of concern, female athletes have a greater risk of ACL rupture, with ...

Engineers and physicians examined how one procedure in particular—anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction—contributes to greenhouse gas emissions and how its impacts can be reduced.

The cruciate ligaments are the two internal ligaments of the knee joint that prevent the lower and upper leg bones from sliding forward and backwards on each other. They are called the anterior (front ...

Arsenal forward Gabriel Jesus will have an operation on his left knee after sustaining an anterior cruciate ligament injury. Jesus, 27, was taken off on a stretcher during Sunday's FA Cup third ...