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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.

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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

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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?

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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 ?

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