this year brought with it a big potential breakthrough for ACL reconstructions, it could offer a much faster recovery and return to play as it avoids the graft method and instead offers a way for the body to heal itself naturally which is previously unseen. Bridge-Enhanced ACL Repair is the name of the method and is completed by placing a sponge soaked in blood and specific proteins in between the torn ACL ligament tissue, after a couple of weeks the ACL tissue begins to grow into the sponge eventually growing together and removing the sponge as it disintegrates over time.
Boston Children's Hospital began their trial recently and the split 20 subjects with ACL tears, the results so far seem to suggest that the repairs were just as successful as the traditional methods of treatment, but the important part of it is that the recovery through physio therapy was far quicker in the Bridge-enhanced patients.
The research has been received really well but the hospital strongly maintain that more research is needed before they're comfortable making this a common practice and revolutionising ACL surgeries.
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