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usually when surgeons take the middle third of the petela tendon the use a saw and take a trapazoidal wedge out of the New

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Another ACL question artemis New
Date: Jun 19 2008, 0:47 GMT
From: smitho


	patela at the tendons attachment. They do the same at the tibia insertion sight createing a bone tendon bone graft. If the surgeon does not bone graft the harvest site, and not all do, the patient can have a lot of pain. In some cases the patela can actually fratcture at the harvest site causing severe pain. This is one reason surgeons have been switching to other graft options. Personaly, at my age and the sports I enjoy, I would get an allograph, aka cadavar graft.

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