Many employers today are encouraging their employees who smoke tobacco to quit and are refusing to hire smokers for new positions, citing health insurance costs and disability payments as prime reasons for such personnel policies. In some physically demanding occupations, it may also be true that no...
Purpose To compare patients with a concomitant full-thickness cartilage lesion and anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury to patients with an isolated ACL injury at 10-15 years post ACL reconstruction. Methods This is a longitudinal follow-up of a cohort of 89 patients that were identified in ...