Athletes undergoing tissue transplant surgery for knee damage have bright future
Monday, July 19, 2010 - 09:56
in Health & Medicine
Athletes with bone and cartilage knee damage who are treated with transplanted tissue can return to sports after surgery, according to a Hospital for Special Surgery study reported at the annual meeting of the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine, held July 15-18 in Providence, Rhode Island. The study overturns the widely held belief that patients who undergo this surgery do not return to athletics...