Knee Science
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ACL Tears Can Heal WITHOUT SURGERY?! 🤯😱 In ~6 months time my client Michael achieved MRI verified ligament re-attachment as shown below 🧵
Lindsey Vonn just accomplished one of the most impressive athletic feats I've ever seen! Here is a still-image of Lindsey maneuvering down the slopes of an Olympic training run, at age 41, with a *FULLY TORN ACL* she sustained *JUST* last week! What do you make of this?
18 studies of 1433 ACL tears were reviewed to determine the benefits of exercise compared to surgery 📖 Unfortunately, as is consistent in the literature, the exercise protocols used in these studies were laughably poor in their quality, yielding an F- CERT score! ❌ This means
MRI comparison of my client Michael 6 months post Grade III ACL Tear. MRI verified 50% healing of his ACL🔥 This *ALSO* coincided with IMPROVED function: 1.) Plyometrics 👟 2.) Heavy Squatting 🏋️♂️ 3.) Full Court Basketball 🏀 Not all cases reach this point but a lot do.
Meniscus Tear Myth DEBUNKED 🤯 A systematic review in 2024 compared the knees of 1,078 individuals to determine risk of knee OA development 📖 ~50% opted for meniscectomy surgery, and ~50% opted for exercise What did they find? 🧐 Exercise treated knees had a 27% *LOWER*
SCENARIO: You’re a young active adult that just tore their meniscus playing soccer 🤕⚽️ Your medical team gets you scheduled for a meniscus repair 🔪🦵 A procedure that: 1.) Costs $3,000-$10,000 💰 2.) Has a 16% re-operation rate ↪️ 3.) Has a 19% failure rate ❌ …only
Can Meniscus Tears heal WITHOUT SURGERY?! 🤯👇 12 randomized controlled trials of 1336 patients were systematically reviewed to determine the effects of exercise for meniscus tears. What did they find? LESS pain — MORE strength — and MORE function! (Mao et al 2024) Exercise
67 of the top surgeons and physical therapists from around the world recently came up with this consensus statement: “Both surgery and exercise therapy are viable treatment options for traumatic and non-traumatic meniscus tears (GRADE A Evidence)” (Mao et al, 2024) Yet so many
ACL Science: Arthritis Myth Debunked? 🧐 Oftentimes it’s believed ACL surgery is a *MUST* to prevent arthritis development following an ACL rupture. But check this 👇 A 2023 Meta-Analysis of 3 randomized controlled trials totaling 343 injured knees found that the relative risk
Here’s a gem of knowledge in the MENISCUS MINE 💎⛏️ “In patients with traumatic meniscus tears, early meniscal surgery did *NOT* appear superior to exercise and education in improving pain, function, and quality of life.” Just 12 WEEKS of exercise was enough to MATCH the
A systematic review of 15 studies on ACL tears found SIMILAR return to sport rates for both groups; surgical and rehab alone! (Filbay et al 2025) This is DESPITE 10/15 studies being designed in such a way that *FAVORED* surgery. These 10 studies *only* recommended people in the
Research from 30+ years ago has already proven that the ACL can heal itself without surgery.😱 This is confirmed by two "second look" arthroscopy studies in the 1990's (Ihara et al, 1994) (Kurosaka et al 1998). What did they find? 🧐 80% ACL healing rates 60% Meniscus healing
ACL tears occur primarily occur in DECELERATION (Högberg et al, 2025) -- meaning, when SLOWING DOWN from FAST SPEEDS! Does it make sense, then, to RUSH back into plyometrics quicker than you can control a step-down with load? What do you think? Comment below! 🙏
The data is clear that a fully torn ACL can heal itself without surgery -- meaning there is a legitimate chance to return sport without ever having to go under the knife! But only 10% of surgeons and <30% of physios will tell you this is the case. This is a tremendous gap from
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