Brianna
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Re:ACL Prevention - 2006/11/02 13:11
Really interesting and informative article. Until reading it, I had never heard of chondrocytes and their function within knee stabilization, and how important it is to try and preserve it.
Granted, the following technique is a little extreme for the "average" athlete, but it gives insight into the advances and information that is available with regards to knee injuries, prevention, and rehab.
“We’ve entered the age of what I call ‘biological’ instead of ‘bionic’ repair of joints,” Stone says. Using sterilized tissues from humans, or even from pigs — a technique Stone has pioneered, partly in response to concern about illegally harvested cadavers — doctors can make repairs. They can transplant a meniscus into the knee of someone who has had his removed. They can patch torn A.C.L.’s and P.C.L.’s or graft in new ones (the same procedure performed on Streb, who, despite the fresh tear to her A.C.L., is still competing). They can remove some of a person’s chondrocytes, clone them in the lab, mix them with blood and smear the resulting paste, like a grout, over damaged patches of cartilage."
This is also a good link (from the aforemention article) with info on ACL injuries in female athletes
http://www.sportsmetrics.net/index.asp?ipath=edu/kneeinjuries.htm
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