Is the Lind or LaPrade Technique Able to Control Anterior and Rotational Laxity in Medial-Side Knee Injuries? A Controlled Laboratory Study of 18 Knees
Michel Drouineau, Baptiste Guegan, Harold Common, Theo Cojean, Henri Robert · 2025
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Michel Drouineau and co-authors pit two surgical recipes for rebuilding a knee's torn inner ligaments against each other on the bench. Chronic medial injuries leave the knee loose in forward slide and rotation. The Lind technique rebuilds both target ligaments in one continuous graft from a pedicled tendon; the LaPrade technique uses two separate free grafts.
Eighteen fresh-frozen cadaver limbs were cut to simulate a severe medial injury, then reconstructed each way and loaded to measure slide and twist. Which recipe restrains the tibia better is a practical question every sports surgeon faces. Cadaver mechanics cannot capture healing, but they can crown the stronger scaffold before patients bet their knees.
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| CREATOR | Michel Drouineau, Baptiste Guegan, Harold Common, Theo Cojean, Henri Robert |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 33 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |