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[Joe Foss]

http://www.bostonglobe.com/lifestyle/health-wellness/2014/11/08/the-future-treating-acl-tears-cutting-surgery/H56nklXNhAXoEptwVay2vN/story.html?event=event25

Sure would be good news if it pans out.

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[myrtle]

awesome, and as she alludes to, it could be a bridge to an even better procedure with faster recovery.

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For there is always light,
if only we’re brave enough to see it.
If only we’re brave enough to be it.
- Amanda Gorman

[summertime blues]

Wow, that's amazing! My son-in-law had an MCL, and it's *sort of* healed, not as well as he'd like but he gets around on it fine. If it had been an ACL he'd have had to have surgery, no two ways about it. I didn't get why until I read the article.

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Don't take life so serious. It ain't nohows permanent.
It takes 3 years to build a team and 7 to build a program.--Conventional Wisdom

[willtalk]

I have always suspected that the medical professionals generally had a real problem thinking outside the box in respect to innovative procedures and preventative sleeves or braces. The educational requirements in the field do not lend themselves to be compatible with much creativity.

[scfastpitch]