Conventionally one allows contact sports within 6 months post reconstruction . Recent evidence suggests that it would be prudent to delay contact sports to 12 months post acl reconstruction with the widely popular hamstring tendons (Am j sports medicine). The reported rates of first year revisions are higher in hamstring group. One could postulate that it is due to the delayed bone in growth in the tunnels or the donor hamstrings regeneration time which is a dynamic acl agonist.
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