{"id":276,"date":"2023-04-13T17:36:24","date_gmt":"2023-04-13T17:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/testing.southerncrescentsolutions.net\/wvortho\/?p=276"},"modified":"2023-04-19T17:15:50","modified_gmt":"2023-04-19T17:15:50","slug":"what-kind-of-graft-are-you-going-to-use-in-my-acl-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/testing.southerncrescentsolutions.net\/wvortho\/2023\/04\/13\/what-kind-of-graft-are-you-going-to-use-in-my-acl-surgery\/","title":{"rendered":"What kind of graft are you going to use in my ACL surgery?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pl-276\"  class=\"panel-layout\" ><div id=\"pg-276-0\"  class=\"panel-grid panel-no-style\" ><div id=\"pgc-276-0-0\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div id=\"panel-276-0-0-0\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_sow-editor panel-first-child panel-last-child\" data-index=\"0\" ><div\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tclass=\"so-widget-sow-editor so-widget-sow-editor-base\"\n\t\t\t\n\t\t>\n<div class=\"siteorigin-widget-tinymce textwidget\">\n\t<p>I hear that question a lot.\u00a0 While it is an interesting and important question, the amount of attention that the actual graft type has received is out of proportion to its importance in my opinion.\u00a0 Regardless of graft type, the most important consideration in successful ACL surgery is the surgeon's ability to consistently place a tendon graft (which is strong enough) in the correct anatomic location, fix it securely and then carefully supervise an appropriate rehabilitation program that includes sufficient time for the graft to heal.\u00a0 When patients go to the Internet to try to sort out for themselves the plethora of data regarding graft types and the success of ACL surgery the other variables mentioned above are often neglected.<\/p>\n<p>There are certainly pros and cons of the various graft choices.\u00a0 I believe it is wise to carefully consider the relative risk of complications when choosing the graft.\u00a0 However all of the grafts commonly used for ACL reconstruction have been proven to perform well when the operation and rehabilitation are done correctly and the patient is compliant.\u00a0 Therefore it seems to me most important for surgeon to be able to explain clearly and concisely why a certain graft choice is their own personal preference in any individual patient.\u00a0 This may have to do with the experience and training of the surgeon.\u00a0 Experienced ACL surgeons are commonly adept at handling multiple different graft types and may individualize based on patient age and activity level.\u00a0 Regardless of graft type, I believe the most important factor in deciding upon ACL surgery is finding an experienced arthroscopic ACL surgeon.\u00a0 Experience matters.\u00a0 Don't be afraid ever to ask the surgeon about his experience and his results.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hear that question a lot.\u00a0 While it is an interesting and important question, the amount of attention that the actual graft type has received is out of proportion to its importance in my opinion.\u00a0 Regardless of graft type, the most important consideration in successful ACL surgery is the surgeon&#8217;s ability to consistently place a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/testing.southerncrescentsolutions.net\/wvortho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/testing.southerncrescentsolutions.net\/wvortho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/testing.southerncrescentsolutions.net\/wvortho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/testing.southerncrescentsolutions.net\/wvortho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/testing.southerncrescentsolutions.net\/wvortho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/testing.southerncrescentsolutions.net\/wvortho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":277,"href":"http:\/\/testing.southerncrescentsolutions.net\/wvortho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276\/revisions\/277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/testing.southerncrescentsolutions.net\/wvortho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/testing.southerncrescentsolutions.net\/wvortho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/testing.southerncrescentsolutions.net\/wvortho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}