The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery American Volume

For fl1t1fl years the author has had the privilege of attending to the major injuries of a large numl)er of athletes, not only of college, but also of high-school age. None are so pleasant. to treat and so eager to get back to the fray as these students. It. is a problem to keep them from recovering too soon for their own good. One is forced then to seek methods -hich aim at obtaining the maximum recovery in the minimum time. The degree of recov-eiy flTlttst always be paramount, but the rapidity of the cure cannot be ignored. ()nly OflC goal is permissible in the care of the young athlete,-namely, complete IC(tOVCI ’ : for, in the majority of cases of severe injury, especially to the knee, if the re-(\e1y is not complete, the patient is no longer an athlete. These principles apply to all major injuries. One particular injury which apparently has not received excellent, or even very good, treatment throughout the years is that injury caused primarily by abduction and external rotation of the tibia on the femur, with that. unhappy triad (1) rupture of the medial collateral ligament, (2) damage to the medial meniscus, and (3) rupture of the anterior cruciate ligament. While there are many other types of injury to the knee and to other joints common in athletes, this paper deal