Biological approaches to treat orthopaedic injuries seek to improve clinical outcomes by promoting tissue regeneration and healing. These approaches can be used in isolation or as an augment to surgical interventions. They include, but are not limited to, preparations of growth factors, autologous blood products, and cells. Despite considerable research effort, […]
In this video, Dr. LaPrade discusses the key points of his lecture at the 2018 Global Cartilage Expert Consensus Meeting. His lecture highlights fresh osteoarticualr allografts for the treatment of osteochondral defects in the knee. The use of fresh osteoarticular allografts are a viable for treatment for osteochondral defects. Osteoarticualr allografts are […]
Due to the fast-paced nature of this sport, as well as the ability for one to “catch an edge” on a crack in the ice, ice hockey players do have a risk of tearing structures within their knee that do require surgery. If one twists their knee and […]
Knee injuries while playing soccer are very common. This is especially true for women, where tears of the ACL may most commonly occur due to soccer activities.
Most ACL tears are noncontact and this is the most common mechanism of an ACL tear in a soccer player. Often, the […]
As CrossFit becomes more popular, we are finding a larger number of patients that present to us with injuries that they sustained while doing CrossFit activities. This is particularly true in the young and middle-aged adult population, whereby a lot of stress in the knee can cause cartilage damage, which […]
Knee injuries are very common in football. They can include both noncontact and contact injuries. Unfortunately, there is a very high risk for significant knee injuries, such as an ACL tear, due to the twisting, turning, planting, and other mechanisms that places the knee at risk when playing […]
Basketball players, and especially women basketball players, have a relatively high rate of knee injuries and anterior cruciate ligament tears. This is because during court-type activities with a hard floor, they can put significant stress on their knee when they are out of balance, which […]
Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) tears have been reported to have an annual incidence of 0.17 per 1,000 players in college football and 0.7 per 1,000 players in the National Football League (NFL). Previous data have shown that up to 8% of all participants at the NFL Combine […]
It is becoming increasingly recognized that isolated lateral collateral ligament (LCL) tears are more common than have been previously recognized and that anatomic-based LCL reconstructions have the best outcomes. Although it was believed that posterolateral corner injuries were often missed or mistreated and were given the pneumonic […]
Blood flow restriction (BFR) therapy is becoming increasingly popular in musculoskeletal injury rehabilitation. In particular, this form of therapy is being utilized more often in the postoperative setting following knee surgery, including anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction. BFR therapy provides patients and clinicians an alternative treatment option to […]
