A torn knee ligament can heal without surgery, study shows
Ruptured ACL’s Self-Healing Ability In the first study published ... it also stated that surgical reconstruction using tendon ...
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Healing of acute anterior cruciate ligament rupture on MRI and outcomes following non-surgical management with the Cross Bracing Protocol
Although we graded these as ‘discontinuous’, it is possible that attachment to these structures could provide some function/stability, and it is not clear how this compares to the function/stability ...
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Study debunks longstanding medical myth that a torn ACL can't heal
"So basically, my ACL has reattached and is healing," she said ... removing the damaged ligament and replacing it with a graft of tissue taken from the patient's hamstring or patellar (kneecap ...
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Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injuries
If the injury to the ACL also affects the associated structures ... statistically significant differences between these graft types were found: the PT group had a 79% side-to-side difference ...
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Why autologous hamstring tendon reconstruction should now be considered the gold standard for anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction in athletes
ACL reconstruction carried out endoscopically with the patellar tendon graft was popularised last century in the late 1980s and early 1990s due to the advent of easily performed interference screw ...