Dr. Gregory DiFelice: The ACL Preservation Method and the Case for ACL Repair, Part 2

In this episode of the Brawn Body Health and Fitness
Podcast, Dan is joined by Dr. Gregory DiFelice to discuss his
preservation method and the case for ACL repair instead of
reconstruction.


Dr. Gregory S. DiFelice is a fellowship-trained orthopedic
surgeon specializing in Sports Traumatology and Joint
Reconstruction Surgery at Hospital for Special Surgery and New
York-Presbyterian Hospital. He also holds an academic appointment
at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University as an
Associate Attending Orthopedic Surgeon. His main surgical focus
is on the treatment of the knee, shoulder, and hip. Using both
non-surgical and surgical methods, he strives to utilize the
latest technologies to improve patient outcomes, while preserving
their native tissues. He refers to his customized approach as
Preservation First, and this guides his practice. His philosophy,
developed over 20+ years in practice, is to use surgery as a last
resort, and if surgery is absolutely necessary, to perform the
most conservative surgery that will give the best, most
long-lasting results for the patient. This delicate balancing of
the risks and benefits of surgery for each individual is, in
essence, the art of surgery. Dr. DiFelice is a surgical innovator
and has developed several cutting-edge surgical techniques that
allow him to save a patients’ torn ligaments, rather than
replacing them, which is the current standard of care. His
approach is called ligament preservation and includes
conservative, minimally invasive techniques such as primary
repair and primary repair with augmentation. By saving the
patients’ native ligament tissues, he greatly reduces surgical
injury to the patient, and thus diminishes the recovery time and
restores more of the natural function of the knee. Currently, for
50% to 75% of his ACL injured patients, he is able to save most,
if not all, of the patients’ native tissue, thereby diminishing
the need for grafts. He uses ACL reconstruction – the replacing
of the torn ligament with a graft, which is considered the
standard of care throughout the world – only as a last resort
when there is little or no native tissue available to save. As
the surgical innovator of his modern-day preservation approach,
he has published and lectured extensively, both domestically and
internationally, on this and other topics. For more on Dr.
DiFelice, be sure to check out @drdifelice on Instagram ,
https://gregorysdifelicemd.com/ and
https://difelicefoundation.org/





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