Pain Evaluation After Arthroscopic All-Inside Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction
By Philippe Hardy, MD, PhD
The GraftLink® technique
has several perceived advantages over traditional ACL reconstruction techniques
due to the ability to preserve tissue and bone, harvest only a single
hamstring, create smaller incisions and tension the graft into anatomic femoral
and tibial sockets after fixation. Our recent prospective study, published in the Knee journal, Pain
evaluation after all-inside anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction and short
term functional results of a prospective randomized study(1),
quantified some of these advantages and
showed a clear benefit of the GraftLink technique over a traditional, full
tunnel technique with interference screws.
Overall, GraftLink patients exhibited a trend for less pain,
better range of motion and improved knee stability in the early postoperative
period. Socket position was also superior with the use of FlipCutter® versus
standard antegrade reamers. At six months, patients exhibited excellent
subjective scores as rated by the IKDC scale. These early results validate what
we have experienced with our patients clinically and we look forward to
comparing long term outcomes in the future.
Article Reference:
(1) Benea H, d'Astorg H, Klouche S, Bauer T, Tomoaia G, Hardy P.
Pain evaluation after all-inside anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction and short term functional results of
a prospective randomized study. Knee. 2014;21(1):102-106.
