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The main differences between traditional acl surgery and the bear technique are that the patient’s grafts are not used in bear, and the remaining acl tissue is preserved rather than removed. The acl is one of the most commonly injured ligaments in the knee.
Compared to traditional acl reconstruction, the implant is a less invasive procedure that restores the knee’s natural anatomy and function.
Bridge enhanced acl repair. With bear, a suture repair of the torn acl is combined with a specific extracellular matrix scaffold (the bear scaffold). We have tested this new technique in animal models and 75 patients. The acl is one of the most commonly injured ligaments in the knee.
The main differences between traditional acl surgery and the bear technique are that the patient’s grafts are not used in bear, and the remaining acl tissue is preserved rather than removed. The procedure has been performed in preclinical models and over 100 patients with excellent results. This scaffold has been designed from bovine tissue and includes proteins and collagen which have shown the ability to stimulate acl
Compared to traditional acl reconstruction, the implant is a less invasive procedure that restores the knee’s natural anatomy and function. Without an intact acl, the knee joint may become unstable, and have a tendency to give out or buckle. The anterior cruciate ligament (acl) helps to function as one of the major stabilizers of the knee joint.
So the acl attaches your. The anterior cruciate ligament is one of four major ligaments in the knee joint. It takes advantage of the biologic basis of wound healing in other tissues by providing a stable provisional scaffold which can immobilize autologous blood in the otherwise fluidic wound site.
Injuries to the anterior cruciate ligament (acl) are currently treated with replacement of the torn ligament with a graft of. A review of the science and the pathway through fda investigational device approval. Ligaments attach bone to bone.
“in the united states, clinical trials are being conducted and data comparing bear outcomes to reconstruction outcomes is being evaluated. 10.1177/2325967116672176 ª the author(s) 2016 1 The scaffolding is composed of an extracellular.