Timing of ACL reconstruction is a clinical decision.
There is a very special patient where they’ll have an ACL and they’ll hardly even notice it. They have minimal swelling. They have good return of muscle function within one to two weeks and some surgeons will say, correctly, that that one will not pose any special problems. But you will note that they have fulfilled all the goals.
And so it’s a clinical decision when those goals are met that surgery is now safe for the patient.
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