I don’t know if icing is any good for injuries really. Having seen thousands of patients recover from knee surgery I can’t say that icing makes any difference. This goes against the accepted treatment and scientific studies to prove otherwise but I would not get too worried if you are not applying ice to your [..]
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May
31
Icing, cryotherapy and all that
Feb
06
15 Year Follow Up of Anterior Cruciate Ligament surgery
15 Year outcomes in Anterior Cruciate Ligament reconstructed patients Leo Pinczewski’s study in the January 2011 edition of the AJSM has some interesting information. In his article he followed 90 isolated ACL reconstructed patients over 15 years. 24% had a tear of the contra lateral ACL during that time and 8% ruptured their graft. A [..]
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Sep
28
ACL LARS Augmentation Device
Another ACL graft option Artificial ligaments in anterior cruciate ligament have had a bad reputation for a long time. So much so that they have been almost totally dismissed as an option in the USA and Europe. No reports at international meetings or in journals report on their outcomes. Until now that is and the [..]
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May
14
ACL Reconstruction and Platelets Rich Plasma
Platelet Rich Plasma and ACL graft healing This is an area that will receive a lot of attention in the Sports Medicine journals over the next 2 years. The exciting question is can Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP) enhance the healing of the anterior cruciate ligament graft? If it can then the time to return to [..]
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Sep
22
Should I get my ACL reconstructed?
After 12 years doing ACL reconstructive surgery this is still a difficult question for me to answer. It sounds logical. Something is broken – get it fixed. But it is not that simple. There is no doubt that there is a lot of hassle involved. On average a patient involved in physical work will be [..]
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Aug
22
Predisposing Factors in Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injury
A study in the American Journal of Sports Medicine in July 2009 shows that there are anthropometric differences between the knees of subjects with a non contact ACL injury and those without an ACL injury, suggesting that ACL volume may play a direct role in non contact ACL injury.
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