ACL Injuries and The Cross Bracing Protocol

Acute ACL Injuries and The Cross Bracing Protocol: Part One to Four

Part 1: Understanding the ACL and the modern science of healing

For decades, tearing your ACL almost automatically meant surgery. Today, our understanding of how this remarkable ligament functions—and, importantly, how it may heal—is changing. Part 1 in a 5 part series on the ACL and why you might not need surgery.

Part 2: Why we once believed the ACL cannot heal. And how we now know that it can

For decades, tearing your ACL almost automatically meant surgery. Today, our understanding of how this remarkable ligament functions—and, importantly, how it may heal—is changing. Part 2 in a 5 part series on the ACL and why you might not need surgery.

Part 3: ACL reconstruction and how it compares to keeping your natural ligament

ACL reconstruction is an increadible operation. But it isn’t ligament repair. In this article we deep dive into the operation and ask – how does it compare to healing your own ligament?

Part 4: The Cross Bracing Protocol

In this article we introduce the Cross Bracing Protocol. An innovitive yet at its crux, surprisingly simple intervention designed to offload the ACL and optimise its healing. Read on to learn more about how it works and who it can help.