Study Seeks Answers to ACL Failures (written by Biloine Young @ OTW)
Here is the problem: More than 200,000 anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) surgeries are performed each year in the United States and from 1% to 8% fail. Most of the patients whose initial surgery failed then choose to have their knee ligaments reconstructed for a second time. Those second surgeries have a failure rate that is almost 14%.
Sports medicine specialists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis are leading a national study analyzing why a second surgery to reconstruct a tear in the knee’s anter...
