The most common surgical techniques used to repair a torn anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) offer patients improved quality of life five years after injury, according to research presented at the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine’s Annual Meeting. The study followed patients for five years following surgery.
“Orthopaedic surgeons have a variety of surgical techniques available to reconstruct a torn ACL,” says corresponding author and presenter Nicholas Mohtadi, MD, MSc, FRCSC, from the University of Calgary Sport Medicine Centre. “Our research showed patients overwhelmingly see improvements with the patellar tendon, hamstring tendon, and double-bundle surgical techniques, though re-injuries are more common in the hamstring tendon and double-bundle approach.”