Improving Knee Ligament Surgery: Anatomic Double-Bundle ACL Reconstruction
Dr. Fu performing ACL Surgery
Photo taken by Mark Klingler
During every sports season, you hear it...a star player is out for the season with a torn ACL, one of the most common sports-related injuries in people of all ages. Will he or she ever be able to return as good as before? Across the U.S. every year more than 200,000 young active people tear their ACL, the main stabilizer of the knee joint. Traditional ACL repair surgery has been done basically the same way for the past 30 years, but today, orthopaedic surgeons are changing their minds on how to fix torn ACLs.