The implant eventually is absorbed into the patient’s body.įull recovery time of about nine months before allowing “pivoting sports” matches what’s needed for currently-used reconstructive procedures, but Shadan said patients early on are asked to slow down a bit. We leave the ACL alone and the two broken ends come back together.” “We don’t disrupt what we call the attachments to either side of the ACL. “The implant allows the cells from your ruptured ACL to grow into it, reestablish and reconnect the two broken ends,” Shadan said. It is a breakthrough technology,” said Miach Orthopedic’s President and CEO Martha Shadan. The Bridge-Enhanced ACL Repair (BEAR) Implant is promoted as an alternative to reconstructive surgery using tendons from a patient’s body or a tissue bank. Food & Drug Administration is said to enable healing. But a new approach that has just been given marketing approval by the U.S.
Business & Finance Click to expand menu.Ī torn anterior cruciate ligament, or ACL, does not heal by itself it has to be repaired.
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