ACL Healing Response... anyone have experience

[nose2fingers]

I had this done (instead of a graft) because my pre-op range of motion was minimal... previous post tells all about it. Any success/failure stories out there?

[Narfed]

I was going to write something but then i found this which is better than I could say.

http://www.epicski.com/forum/thread/...rtial-acl-tear

for the most part I would say you are lucky to be able to have that done as opposed to having parts of you cut up and harvested to replace other parts of you.

[nose2fingers]

Thanks for pointing out that thread on epicski... lots of good info.

[mtnbikerskierchick]

That is a good post and explains more than I've ever heard before. I've known a few people to have the ACL Healing Response done with Steadman directly. All of them were Freestyle skiers I used to compete with. All of them had failures within a year of surgery. But, this was 10 years ago or so. So, the technique could have been improved since then to increase success.

[nose2fingers]

ya, that is my concern. The failure rate is high. High enough for the doc to reccomend taking another winter off the hill.