Publications by authors named "Percy Ballard"
Article Synopsis
- The ACL (anterior cruciate ligament) does not heal well after injury, while the MCL (medial collateral ligament) generally heals properly, raising questions about their differing responses to damage.
- The study investigated two ideas: that intra-articular ligaments like the ACL have a distinct histologic response to injury compared to extra-articular ligaments like the MCL, and that applying a collagen-platelet-rich plasma (collagen-PRP) hydrogel could improve ACL healing.
- Results showed that while extra-articular ligaments had better healing, the collagen-PRP treatment for ACL wounds improved tissue repair, suggesting that using a scaffold could address healing differences between these types of ligaments.
The anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) of the knee fails to heal after primary repair. Here we hypothesize that a beneficial biologic repair response can be induced by placing a collagen-platelet rich plasma (collagen-PRP) material into a central ACL defect. A collagen-PRP scaffold was used to treat a central ACL defect in vivo.
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