Timing of Surgery in Acute Anterior Cruciate Ligament Tears on the Return of Quadriceps Muscle Strength After Reconstruction Using an Autogenous Patellar Tendon Graft

1995 ◽  
Vol 23 (6) ◽  
pp. 686-689 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Donald Shelbourne ◽  
Douglas A. Foulk
Keyword(s):  
Anterior Cruciate Ligament ◽  
Muscle Strength ◽  
Patellar Tendon ◽  
Cruciate Ligament ◽  
Quadriceps Muscle ◽  
Tendon Graft ◽  
Timing Of Surgery ◽  
Patellar Tendon Graft ◽  
Anterior Cruciate ◽  
Cruciate Ligament Tears

Review of Jones (1963) on ‘Reconstruction of the anterior cruciate ligament. A technique using the central one-third of the patellar ligament’

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (6) ◽  
pp. 338-344
Author(s):  
Nicola Maffulli ◽  
Antonio Oliviero
Keyword(s):  
Anterior Cruciate Ligament ◽  
Patellar Tendon ◽  
Femoral Condyle ◽  
Cruciate Ligament ◽  
Quadriceps Tendon ◽  
Tendon Graft ◽  
Patellar Ligament ◽  
Patellar Tendon Graft ◽  
Knee Ligament ◽  
Anterior Cruciate

This classic discusses the original publication ‘Reconstruction of the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL). A technique using the central one-third of the patellar ligament’ on the Jones procedure. Published in 1963 in the ‘Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery American Volume’, it was inspired by pioneering surgeons in the field of knee ligament reconstruction. Jones introduced a technique that reconstructed the ACL using the middle third of the patella tendon, leaving it attached to a strip of patella and quadriceps tendon to obtain the necessary length. The strip of patellar tendon was then introduced and secured in a tunnel drilled in an inside-out fashion through the lateral femoral condyle. Although with time technological advances and clinical and biomechanical studies led to profound modifications of the technique described in the original article, the concepts introduced by Jones are still at the base of all the reconstructive techniques of the ACL using a patellar tendon graft.

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