EDWARDS, Colo., Jan. 20, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Richard Cunningham, MD, a apical genu and enarthrosis specializer astatine Vail-Summit Orthopaedics & Neurosurgery (VSON), is the archetypal orthopedic surgeon in Colorado’s Vail Valley to implicit the new Bridge-Enhanced ACL Restoration® (BEAR®) technique. With implicit 20 years of experience, Dr. Cunningham has performed thousands of ACL reconstructions, and galore superior ACL repairs. A superior ACL repair saves the autochthonal ACL alternatively of removing and reconstructing the ACL with a graft. This is the archetypal clip Dr. Cunningham has done an ACL repair augmented with the BEAR® implant. This advancement successful surgical exertion whitethorn supply an betterment successful diligent outcomes for superior ACL repairs.
Dr. Cunningham and his squad person successfully completed the BEAR® ACL repair process connected a diligent astatine Vail Valley Surgical Center in Edwards, Colorado. The diligent was an perfect campaigner for the BEAR® procedure arsenic the teardrop had occurred precocious and was torn adjacent to the bony attachment connected the femur. Dr. Cunningham states, “In the past, the biggest obstruction to ACL repair was the mediocre humor proviso and deficiency of a healing scaffold to let the patient’s autochthonal ACL to heal. With newer micro-surgical instruments and implants, a torn ACL tin much often beryllium saved and repaired alternatively of removed and reconstructed with a tendon graft.”
The Federal Drug Administration’s (FDA) precocious approved the Bridge-Enhanced ACL Restoration® (BEAR®) technique. The BEAR® Restoration exertion utilizes a bovine collagen implant inserted into the ACL repair tract that provides a scaffold to let the body’s healing cells to migrate and connect to beforehand healing of the torn ACL. This precocious exertion whitethorn marque it imaginable to repair tears not antecedently repairable, starring to shorter betterment times, and much mean associated biomechanics.
About Richard Cunningham, MD
Dr. Cunningham is Vail-Summit Orthopaedics & Neurosurgery‘s longest tenured orthopedic surgeon. Formerly the Chief of Surgery astatine the Vail Valley Medical Center, helium was recognized by his colleagues with the Clinical Excellence Award. He is known for his passionateness successful utilizing proven, precocious technologies. Compassionate attraction is defined by his committedness to optimizing diligent outcomes.
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