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Sports Medicine & March Madness With Dr. Frank Noyes, Cincinnati SportsMedicine
CINCINNATI, OH--(Marketwire - March 17, 2009) - As we head into NCAA tournament time for
both men's and women's basketball teams, the fate of many of these teams,
especially on the women's side, depends on how healthy their players are.
According to the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, women basketball
players injure their ACLs four to six times as often as males. And nearly
60 percent of women's ACL tears come when landing from a jump. Dr. Frank
Noyes, a world-renowned expert in ACL injuries, and the experts at
Cincinnati SportsMedicine & Orthopaedic Center have developed a scientific
training program, called Sportsmetrics, that is used by thousands of high
schools and physical trainers around the country and has been shown to
dramatically reduce the incidence of ACL injuries in young female athletes.
A new study from the Cincinnati SportsMedicine and Orthopaedic Center shows
that a growing practice of using a double anterior cruciate ligament graft
to repair ACL injuries is not necessarily superior to a single graft. The
study is led by Dr. Noyes and results of the study were presented at the
recent American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons annual meeting in Las
Vegas.
The study, which looked at anterior cruciate ligament or ACL function as
well as single and double graft reconstructions, showed that there was not
enough evidence to recommend the more complex double bundle ACL graft
technique over a single graft. Instead, the precise location and attachment
of the graft in the knee seems to be most important.
"When the ACL tears, it's like a mop end, and we can't repair it," said Dr.
Noyes. "To that end, we put in a graft and take a tendon around the knee
joint. Then using an arthroscope, we precisely place the new ligament into
the knee joint; this allows the body to remodel a new strong ligament over
several months."
Dr. Frank R. Noyes, President and Medical Director of Cincinnati
Sportsmedicine and Orthopaedic Center, Cincinnati SportsMedicine Research
and Education Foundation and the Noyes Knee Institute, is a board-certified
orthopaedic surgeon and an internationally known expert on the diagnosis
and treatment of knee problems. Dr. Noyes is a member of the American
Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine and the American Academy of
Orthopaedic Surgeons.
For more information, visit: www.sportsmetrics.net.