This Journal feature begins with a case vignette highlighting a common clinical problem. Evidence supporting various strategies is then presented, followed by a review of formal guidelines, when they ...

1 Santa Monica Orthopaedic Sports Medicine/Research Foundation, Santa Monica, CA, USA 2 Santa Monica Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Group, Santa Monica, USA Correspondence to: MsH J Silvers Santa ...

The anterior cruciate ligament, or ACL, is part of the knee. Damage to the ACL is one of the more common, serious, and painful knee injuries. Three bones — the shinbone, thighbone, and the patella — ...

Ligaments are bands of tough elastic tissue around your joints. They connect bone to bone, give your joints support, and limit their movement. You have ligaments around your knees, ankles, elbows, ...

What Is the Anterior Cruciate Ligament? The anterior cruciate ligament is part of the connective tissue inside your knee joint on the front of your knee. The cruciate ligaments cross in an X pattern ...

Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries are common, especially among athletes. Each year, over 400 000 ACL reconstruction (ACLR) surgeries are carried out globally. While the success rate of ACLR is ...

3 Lund University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Clinical Sciences Lund, Orthopaedics, Lund, Sweden Correspondence to Karin Magnusson, Clinical Epidemiology Unit, Orthopaedics Department of ...

For many female athletes who tear their anterior cruciate ligaments, the arduous hours spent recovering through physical ...