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Originally Posted by SirLK26
How many times can a knee take an ACL injury before it becomes too many? I'm not trying to inject doom into this thread; I really want to know.
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Outcomes of repeat revision anterior cruciat... [Am J Sports Med. 2013] - PubMed - NCBI
Repeat revision ACL reconstruction may improve the functional outcomes of patients who have failed revision ACL reconstruction. Most patients do not return to prior activity level following repeat revision. Presence of grade 3 or 4 chondral lesions and body mass index greater than 28 were associated with worse outcomes.
i read another article as well, citing to this same study .. apparently there are not enough patients with multiple ACL revision surgeries to get a study group bigger than the 15 in the above-cited study . . . out of the 15 patients, 27% returned to full functioning (which, to my math comes out to 4.05 patients out of the 15 .. not sure how we end up without a round number)
also, it appears the synthetic material/band is pretty much used for all ACLs now so i assume RG3 had an "allograft" material to act as his ligament so there is no worry about him running out of ligament material but ...... he may run out of surface/bone area of his knee to make any more holes to anchor with. i imagine these holes are micro but still .. he has at least 4 surgical holes in his knee now (im speculating, they might not need to re-anchor? idk).
edit - never mind. it is speculated that RG3 did not use the synthetic band/ligament for his first ACL surgery but they cut out a portion of his patellar tendon.
A Complete Guide to Robert Griffin III's Knee Injury | Bleacher Report
^^ good breakdown
Checking in on Robert Griffin III as He Continues to Recover from Knee Surgery | Bleacher Report
^^ follow up article.
^^ 4 min video animation of an acl repair. very good. very scary.
ps - i thought for sure that synthetic ligament material was all the rage now but apparently using a piece of the patients own ligament graft is the way to go . .