These exercises can be done at home, ideally with the input of your doctor or physical therapist. They can help prepare you for ACL surgery, or complement your structured rehabilitation program.

There are approximately 150,000 anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) tears a year, most of which need to be fixed surgically. However, new research at the Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) in New ...

However, the eccentric exercise group had significantly greater increases — by over twofold — compared to the standard rehabilitation group (P <.001), the authors reported.

One of them is Chris Frolek, a 35-year-old registered nurse in Calgary who was playing competitive tennis when he tore his ACL in a doubles match in 2008. Like many facing a long rehab, being off ...

Despite recent surgical advances that repair ACL injuries in just a few hours as a part of an out-patient procedure, the rehab process for those same injuries has not changed. There are no shortcuts.

"BFR is a suitable additive therapy to ACL rehabilitation for the purposes of minimizing the loss, and enhancing the recovery of muscle, bone, and physical function. While further research is ...

ACL surgery rates have increased in Australia – the number rising 74 per cent between 2000 and 2015 for people aged under 25 – possibly because most young athletes think surgery is a cure.