Reinforcing Outcomes: The Research Pyramid of the InternalBrace™ Technique in ACLR—Episode 3: Clinical Impacts of the InternalBrace Technique

In the final episode of this three-part series, Bruce A. Levy, MD (Orlando, FL), and Patrick A. Smith, MD (Naples, FL), provide a comprehensive summary of peer-reviewed, published clinical research documenting significantly reduced graft retear rates with the InternalBrace™ technique, including:

• Clinical outcome data from hundreds of young, high-risk ACL reconstruction patients, specifically examining the effects among those treated using hamstring, bone-tendon-bone, and quadriceps tendon autografts
• Why conducting clinical research in young, higher-risk athletic patients was so essential to Dr. Smith’s work
• A step-by-step technique walk-through and the importance of independent SutureTape fixation

^{The InternalBrace surgical technique is intended only to augment the primary repair/reconstruction by expanding the area of tissue approximation during the healing period and is not intended as a replacement for the native ligament. The InternalBrace technique is for use during soft tissue-to-bone fixation procedures and is not cleared for bone-to-bone fixation.}