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Precision ACL Reconstruction, An Issue of Clinics in Sports Medicine
- 1st Edition, Volume 43-3 - June 1, 2024
- Editors: Volker Musahl, Alan Getgood
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 8 3 9 8 - 0
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 8 3 9 9 - 7
In this issue of Clinics in Sports Medicine, guest editors Drs. Volker Musahl and Al Getgood bring their considerable expertise to the topic of Precision ACL Reconstru… Read more
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Request a sales quoteIn this issue of Clinics in Sports Medicine, guest editors Drs. Volker Musahl and Al Getgood bring their considerable expertise to the topic of Precision ACL Reconstruction. Top experts in the field cover key topics such as the timing of ACL surgery; non-operative ACL injury treatment; avoiding graft failure: lessons learned from the STABILITY trial; the role of osteotomy in ACL reconstruction; revision ACL reconstruction and associated procedures; and more.
- Contains 15 relevant, practice-oriented topics including comprehensive clinical examination of ACL injury; value-based sustainable ACL surgery; complications in ACL surgery and how to avoid them; evaluation of outcomes after ACL reconstruction; rehabilitation and return to sport after ACL reconstruction; and more.
- Provides in-depth clinical reviews on precision ACL reconstruction, offering actionable insights for clinical practice.
- Presents the latest information on this timely, focused topic under the leadership of experienced editors in the field. Authors synthesize and distill the latest research and practice guidelines to create clinically significant, topic-based reviews.
Sports Medicine
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Contributors
- Forthcoming Issues
- Preoperative
- Comprehensive Clinical Examination of ACL Injuries
- Key points
- Introduction
- History taking
- Clinical examination
- Inspection
- Palpation
- Range of motion
- Stress testing
- Neurovascular examination
- Provocative maneuvers
- Tests for ACL rupture
- Tests for PCL rupture
- Posterolateral corner injury
- Posterolateral drawer
- Posteromedial corner injury
- Meniscus injury
- Discussion
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Supplementary data
- Timing of Anterior Cruciate Ligament Surgery
- Key points
- Introduction
- A rationale for the need of clearer definitions of early and delayed anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction
- The incidence of postoperative stiffness and arthrofibrosis with anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction timing
- Comparison of clinical outcomes after early and delayed anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction
- Comparison of functional outcomes after early and delayed anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction
- Interplay between anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction timing and concurrent surgical interventions
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Nonoperative Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injury Treatment
- Key points
- Introduction
- Treating acute injuries
- Acute phase
- Principles for rehabilitation of sports injuries
- Rehabilitation phase
- Outlines of a rehabilitation program
- Training phase
- Return to sport
- Clinics care points
- Summary
- Perioperative
- Value-Based, Environmentally Sustainable Anterior Cruciate Ligament Surgery
- Key points
- Introduction
- Discussion: value-based anterior cruciate ligament surgery
- Discussion: environmentally sustainable anterior cruciate ligament surgery
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Avoiding Graft Failure: Lessons Learned from the Stability Trial
- Key points
- Introduction/background
- The stability randomized clinical trial
- Participants
- Outcomes
- Adverse events and complications
- Meniscus repair
- Predictors of failure/indications
- Cost-effectiveness
- Loss to follow-up
- What are the potential downsides?
- Future perspectives
- Key lessons learned
- The Role of Osteotomy in Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction
- Key points
- Introduction
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Surgical Techniques in Primary ACL Reconstruction: Getting It Right the First Time
- Key points
- Introduction
- Patient evaluation overview
- Graft selection and associated outcomes
- Techniques in anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction
- Considerations for special populations
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Lateral Extra-Articular Tenodesis and Anterolateral Procedures
- Key points
- Introduction
- Surgical techniques
- Lateral extra-articular tenodesis
- Anterolateral ligament reconstructions
- Clinical results
- Discussion
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Anterior Cruciate Ligament Repair—Here to Stay or History Repeating Itself?
- Key points
- Introduction
- Historical perspective on anterior cruciate ligament repair
- Potential advantages of primary anterior cruciate ligament repair
- Current techniques
- Current systematic reviews and meta-analyses
- Repair versus reconstruction comparative analysis
- Patient selection
- Emerging technologies
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Revision Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction and Associated Procedures
- Key points
- Introduction
- Exploring causes of primary anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction failure
- Preoperative planning for revision anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction
- Considerations during revision anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction
- Additional procedures during revision anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Complications in Anterior Cruciate Ligament Surgery and How to Avoid Them
- Key points
- Introduction
- Preoperative evaluation
- Intraoperative complications
- Postoperative complications
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Postoperative
- Evaluation of Outcomes After Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction: What We Know, What We Have, and What to Consider
- Key points
- What we know
- What we have
- What to consider
- Summary
- Biologic Impact of Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injury and Reconstruction
- Key points
- Introduction
- Inflammatory response of anterior cruciate ligament injury
- Lack of spontaneous healing
- Anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction and the second inflammatory “hit”
- Graft healing after anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Disclosure of funding source
- Financial disclosure
- Conflict of interest
- Rehabilitation and Return to Sport After Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction
- Key points
- Background
- Rehabilitation
- Early postoperative rehabilitation—settle the knee and create a solid platform
- Middle phase—improve load tolerance and strength and start to move like an athlete
- Late phase—get explosive and physically robust
- Maintenance and prevention phase
- Return to sport
- Discussion
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Disclosure
- Precision Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction
- Key points
- Introduction
- Individualized anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction
- Precision anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction
- Postoperative rehabilitation
- Outcomes
- Future considerations
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- No. of pages: 240
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Volume: 43-3
- Published: June 1, 2024
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Hardback ISBN: 9780443183980
- eBook ISBN: 9780443183997
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Volker Musahl
Affiliations and expertise
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, UPMC Freddie Fu Sports Medicine Center, University of PittsburghAG
Alan Getgood
Affiliations and expertise
Fowler Kennedy Sport Medicine Clinic, Western University