re: Would Maason Smith had gotten injured on grass?

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No idea, but if I were an ortho I’d be trying to come up with some kind of minimally-invasive prophylactic procedure where the ligament can be strengthened so it doesn’t tear at all.

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I was thinking about this too. Develop some laparoscopic procedure where they replace your acl with a new acl made from a medical grade rubber.

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You all should stop thinking. Any surgery that attempts to remove or alter the native ligament is going to cause some degree of damage to the supporting structures, whether it's when you go to drill anchoring holes in the bone or punching through the joint capsule.

And what happens when the ACL hypothetically can't tear? The knee just won't bounce back like a rubber band. Some other supporting structure will have to give way (MCL, PCL, musculotendinous structures) or the graft fails or pulls out the anchoring structures and/or sutures

This is science fiction. The most stable, healthy joint is the one that is uncut upon