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		<title>ACL Tear: How To Know If You Have A Torn ACL &#038; What You Should Do</title>
		<link>http://www.sandersclinic.net/blog/2008/08/21/acl-tear/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 21:26:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A tear of the anterior cruciate ligament can be suspected if most of these features are present:

Patients with a torn ACL generally recall the moment that the ACL gave out. Although the injury may be a contact or a non-contact injury, it usually involves a twisting of the femur bone and tibia bone in relation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Competitive Youth Sports Injuries Today Can Lead to Permanent Damage Tomorrow, If Proper Precautions Aren&#8217;t Taken</title>
		<link>http://www.sandersclinic.net/blog/2008/08/21/youth-sports-injuries/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 18:50:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Dr. Mark Sanders
As youth sports intensify, American children get bigger and seasons last longer and longer, youth sports injuries have become more common and more severe. 
In years past it was not out of the ordinary to see a sprained ankle or perhaps a broken leg associated with a youth sport-related injury. But today [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Choosing the Right ACL Graft For The Right Person</title>
		<link>http://www.sandersclinic.net/blog/2008/08/07/choosing-the-right-acl-graft-for-the-right-person/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sandersclinic.net/blog/2008/08/07/choosing-the-right-acl-graft-for-the-right-person/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 14:07:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Accelerated ACL Rehabilitation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When deciding about which type of graft to use for an ACL reconstruction, consider this: A recent study, presented at the 2008 American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine’s annual meeting, has shown that almost 25% of allograft (grafts from a cadaver) reconstructions fail* in patients 40 years and younger.
Furthermore, according to many esteemed Orthopaedic surgeons, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sports Injuries: How to Avoid Orthopedic Surgery</title>
		<link>http://www.sandersclinic.net/blog/2008/07/31/sports-injuries-how-to-avoid-orthopedic-surgery/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sandersclinic.net/blog/2008/07/31/sports-injuries-how-to-avoid-orthopedic-surgery/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2008 21:17:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anyone who has ever been involved in athletics knows that minor sports injuries are just par for the course. Muscle strains, sore limbs and pulled ligaments are not anything to be overly concerned about; a few days of rest and you can usually avoid any lasting damage. But sometimes damage such as rotator cuff tears [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ACL Rehabilitation Program: Getting Back to Your Life After an ACL Injury</title>
		<link>http://www.sandersclinic.net/blog/2008/07/31/acl-rehabilitation-program-getting-back-to-your-life-after-an-acl-injury/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2008 20:10:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What does an ACL rehab program involve?
After an ACL injury, your orthopedic surgeon will create an ACL rehabilitation program that gets you back to your normal life as quickly and as painlessly as possible. Not all ACL knee injuries are the same, of course, which means that your physicians will take your current physical condition, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cadaver Tissue Fails Nearly 25% of the Time in Young Athletic ACL Reconstruction Patients</title>
		<link>http://www.sandersclinic.net/blog/2008/07/31/cadaver-tissue-fails-nearly-25-of-the-time-in-young-athletic-acl-reconstruction-patients/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2008 18:56:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With an estimated 80,000 anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) tears each year in the United States, including the recent injury to golfer Tiger Woods, choosing the best replacement ligament for an ACL surgery is vital.
A new study just released at the 2008 Annual Meeting of the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine found that using a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Injury to the Scapholunate Interosseous Ligament</title>
		<link>http://www.sandersclinic.net/blog/2008/07/02/injury-to-the-scapholunate-interosseous-ligament/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sandersclinic.net/blog/2008/07/02/injury-to-the-scapholunate-interosseous-ligament/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 21:35:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the most common sports injuries, especially in two-wheel sports, occurs in the scapholunate interosseous ligament.
The scapholunate interosseous ligament is the link between carpal scaphoid and lunate bone. It ensures stability of the scapholunate joint and helps keep the entire wrist stabilized. Injuries to this very crucial ligament commonly occur in falls on outstretched [...]]]></description>
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		<title>“Autografts Vs. Allografts, It All Boils Down to One Inch of Incision”</title>
		<link>http://www.sandersclinic.net/blog/2008/06/03/acl-reconstruction-knee-function-stability-rebuild-ligament/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sandersclinic.net/blog/2008/06/03/acl-reconstruction-knee-function-stability-rebuild-ligament/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2008 19:51:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) reconstruction surgery is a procedure performed to rebuild a ligament that is important for knee function and stability. In the actual reconstruction phase, a graft is used to rebuild the ligament.  The issue that is most important is what tendon will be used to substitute for the native ACL.
These grafts [...]]]></description>
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