{"id":1249,"date":"2021-05-18T22:43:32","date_gmt":"2021-05-18T22:43:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drkimball.com\/?page_id=1249"},"modified":"2021-05-27T16:48:03","modified_gmt":"2021-05-27T16:48:03","slug":"knee-common-knee-procedures","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/drkimball.com\/knee-common-knee-procedures\/","title":{"rendered":"Knee, Common Knee Procedures"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
Dr. Kimball has been working with a new technology for knee replacement. It offers unique advantages when compared to a traditional knee replacement.<\/p>
The differences include:<\/p>
For Dr. Kimball\u2019s full description and explanation packet about ACL Surgery, click here<\/a>.<\/p> Recent reports indicate that surgeons who, on average, do 10 ACL surgeries per year do almost 90% of ACL reconstructions done in America. I perform 120 to 150 ACL reconstructions per year.<\/p> Approximately 60% of my ACL\u2019s are done using Patellar Tendon Autografts (because of the number of high demand athletes I treat), another 20% are performed with Hamstring Autografts (Double Bundle Anatomic technique) and the remaining 20% are performed with Allografts usually in a \u201crevision\u201d setting.<\/p>