The study, published in the October 2009 Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, found that 6.5 percent of ACL patients had to undergo another knee operation within one year and these patients were likely to be female, under age 40 or treated by surgeons with low volumes of such surgery.
The research, led by Robert Marx, MD, at the Hospital for Special Surgery, was based on New York State statistics, which also showed that that the number of ACL reconstructions increased by 21.5 percent from 1997 to 2006.
Read the Hospital for Special Surgery’s release on anterior cruciate ligament surgery.
