The ACL-Deficient Knee

FOREWORD I.- FOREWORD II.- Treatment ACL-injuries - still an unsolved clinical problem?.- PREFACE.- Historical Aspects on Surgery for Anterior Cruciate Ligament Deficiency.- Evidence-Based Medicine. How Can we Use it to Guide our Practice?.- What have we learned from the Kaiser Permanente Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction Registry (KP ACLRR)?.- The Danish anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction registry. What we are doing, how we do it, and which would be the best way to do it.- ACL ruptures in the female athlete. Can we predict who is at increased risk and can we reduce noncontact injury rates?.- Anterior cruciate ligament surgery - risk factors for development of osteoarthritis. What can we do to prevent it?.- The need for an objective measurement in-vivo of rotational stability of the ACL-deficient knee. How can we measure it?.- Guidelines for operative versus nonoperative management of ACL injuries.- The stimulation of healing of the anterior cruciate ligament. Researchand clinical relevance.- ACL Primary Repair. What we did, the results and how it helps today to tailor treatments to the patient and the pathology.- Graft choice in ACL reconstruction. Which one and why?.- Graft healing in ACL reconstruction: Can we enhance it in clinical practice?.- Is double-bundle ACL reconstruction necessary?.- ACL injuries in skeletally immature patients and adolescents. How can we improve the high rate of poor outcomes?.- Indications for ancillary surgery in the ACL deficient knee.- Outpatient ACL surgery. Is it safe?.- Factors related to return to sport after ACL reconstruction: When is it safe?.- Return to sports after ACL reconstruction surgery. A risk for further joint injury?.- Psychological factors in the ACL reconstruction population. Are they predictive of patient outcomes?.- Acute anterior cruciate ligament tear surgery. Repair vs. reconstruction. When?.- Partial chronic anterior cruciate ligaments tears. What to do.- Chronic anterior cruciate