Really?

Sure surgical interventions are dependent on the goals and functional capacity of the individual but most of us generally correlate surgery with ACL injuries, no? I mean, I thought PCL and MCL injuries were the only ones that didn’t require an operation (that was sarcasm by the way).

Well Roos (a prominent knee researcher) and colleagues recently published a paper on non-elite athletes, outlining that there were relatively little differences between in functional capacity and return to physical activity between their control and experimental groups.

Here’s an excellent summary of the study’s findings.

Surgery Might Not be Needed for ACL Tears.

To read the full paper, click here

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