Abstract
The optimal treatment of a ruptured anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) restores the patient’s native anatomy and biomechanics as close to normal as possible. The purpose of this technical note is to describe an ACL reconstruction technique in which a double-bundle concept is used, wherein one bundle contains repaired ACL tissue and the second bundle contains a hamstring autograft, and each bundle is tensioned independently. Even in chronic cases, this technique allows for incorporation of the native ACL because, more often than not, there is sufficient tissue of good quality available for repair of one bundle. By augmenting the ACL repair with an autograft sized to the fit the individual anatomy, the patient’s ACL tibial footprint can be closely restored to normal, and the potential benefits of tissue preservation are combined with the biomechanical strengths of an autograft double-bundle ACL reconstruction.
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