bpexile Posted March 2, 2020 Report Share Posted March 2, 2020 Hi All, seeing how long the recovery takes for players when having ACL surgery I was wondering if the LARS surgery is used at all in the UK. Approx 10 yrs ago in Oz, a Sydney Swans AFL player hit the headlines by having LARS surgery on his ACL & was back playing in 11 weeks, there is also records of other athletes in Oz recovering in time to make Olympic teams & going on to win gold. So does anyone know if this type of surgery has been deemed unsuccessful or too risky for whatever reason. Anyones thoughts would be interesting, COYR's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StGeorge Posted March 2, 2020 Report Share Posted March 2, 2020 Interesting topic, hopefully lots of response Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prinny Posted March 2, 2020 Report Share Posted March 2, 2020 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-08-17/whatever-happened-to-lars-acl-the-miracle-cure-that-was-too-good/10129102 TLDR: failure rates and long term risks stopped it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davefevs Posted March 2, 2020 Report Share Posted March 2, 2020 1 hour ago, bpexile said: Hi All, seeing how long the recovery takes for players when having ACL surgery I was wondering if the LARS surgery is used at all in the UK. Approx 10 yrs ago in Oz, a Sydney Swans AFL player hit the headlines by having LARS surgery on his ACL & was back playing in 11 weeks, there is also records of other athletes in Oz recovering in time to make Olympic teams & going on to win gold. So does anyone know if this type of surgery has been deemed unsuccessful or too risky for whatever reason. Anyones thoughts would be interesting, COYR's. @SX227 is your man Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bpexile Posted March 3, 2020 Author Report Share Posted March 3, 2020 5 hours ago, Prinny said: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-08-17/whatever-happened-to-lars-acl-the-miracle-cure-that-was-too-good/10129102 TLDR: failure rates and long term risks stopped it. Thankyou, I've never seen that summary before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Constant Rabbit Posted March 3, 2020 Report Share Posted March 3, 2020 They still work - but it's very much pot luck. For everyday folk - no issue For high-performance athletes - depends on the risk/reward As you saw, one person won an Olympic Gold Medal - the other, well, not so much. A lot of people still have them at the tail-end of their career to squeeze a last year or three with 12-14 weeks out. Sometimes it works, sometimes not. Alex Johnson is a terrible example, he'd already done both knees 5 times in total by the age of 26 - a titanium exoskeleton would never get that lad playing high-performance sport. Hawthorns Alex Woodward is another - 3 ACL's in 4 years. Some people just don't have the anatomy for it at adult level. LARS still has it's place and is still done quite often. Don't take the word of one surgeon who has done exactly ONE LARS in his whole career - there are plenty who will argue the opposite. Why the interest? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bpexile Posted March 4, 2020 Author Report Share Posted March 4, 2020 19 hours ago, SX227 said: They still work - but it's very much pot luck. For everyday folk - no issue For high-performance athletes - depends on the risk/reward As you saw, one person won an Olympic Gold Medal - the other, well, not so much. A lot of people still have them at the tail-end of their career to squeeze a last year or three with 12-14 weeks out. Sometimes it works, sometimes not. Alex Johnson is a terrible example, he'd already done both knees 5 times in total by the age of 26 - a titanium exoskeleton would never get that lad playing high-performance sport. Hawthorns Alex Woodward is another - 3 ACL's in 4 years. Some people just don't have the anatomy for it at adult level. LARS still has it's place and is still done quite often. Don't take the word of one surgeon who has done exactly ONE LARS in his whole career - there are plenty who will argue the opposite. Why the interest? Thanks for the input, just curious really & wondering why more footballers don't take the option with it supposedly being a quicker recovery, but as you point out its a bit of a lottery on how successful, if successful at all the the end result is. Thanks again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Original OTIB Posted March 4, 2020 Report Share Posted March 4, 2020 Ah, not a Metallica thread then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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