Background The risk of sustaining a graft rupture after anterior cruciate ligament
reconstruction (ACLR) is high. Contributing risk factors are, however, still not clearly …

Purpose Graft rupture is the most prevalent complication following pediatric anterior cruciate
ligament reconstruction (ACLR). The hamstring tendon (HT) autograft is frequently …

Background: The treatment of anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) tears in the pediatric
population has changed significantly in the past few decades. Pediatric patients who …

Purpose To compare the clinical and patient-reported outcomes of adolescent patients who
underwent anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction (ACLR) with quadriceps tendon (QT) …

Knee dislocations and multiligament knee injuries (MLKI) are potentially devastating injuries
that occur most commonly as a result of sports or high energy trauma. As compared with …

Background Over the past two decades, there has been a documented increase in
paediatric ACL injuries because of a rise in younger age sports participation at the …

Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries in skeletally immature patients were once a rare
occurrence, but have become increasingly common secondary to increased athletic …

In 2003, Anderson described an epiphyseal technique for skeletally immature patients. 1
This technique described an ACLR without the need to drill across the physis (Fig. 1). AE …

Survival analyses are a powerful statistical tool used to analyse data when the outcome of
interest involves the time until an event. There is an array of models fit for this goal; however …

Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) tears have become an increasingly prevalent problem in
pediatric patients due to increased youth sports participation and early sports specialization …