While so much of the sports medicine literature focuses on the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL), it is actually the meniscus that may be considered the critical player in the athletic knee. Much of the reasoning behind early ACL reconstruction is for preservation of the meniscus. Modern day cohorts of ACL reconstruction patients, such as the MOON cohort, continually show that it is the meniscal status that determines the athlete`s overall outcome, and not all the reconstructive variables that receive so much of the surgeon`s focus.
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