5 in the Orthopaedic Journal of Sports Medicine. “Our study showed that not only do players perform just as well as uninjured players of equal caliber after ACL reconstruction, but they also do this without having to reduce their driving,” said Blake Schultz, MD, an orthopaedic trauma fellow at the University of Texas who was a Stanford surgical resident at the time of the study. While that may not be surprising to basketball fans whose favorite players have suffered the injury - including the Golden State Warriors’ Klay Thompson in the 2019 National Basketball Association finals - the study also found that those who return to play after ACL reconstruction come back just as strong as their healthy counterparts. The more often a professional basketball player drives the ball toward the basket to score, the higher the risk of the dreaded knee injury known as an anterior cruciate ligament tear, according to a Stanford Medicine study.
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