Injured Your ACL?
An ACL injury should be assessed by an expert within days, to improve treatment outcomes.
With more than a million ACL injuries per year, there are many treatment options and significant research into helping reduce suffering and improve results for the injured.
Our mission is to help support better patient outcomes through education and research.
Learn about the Cross Bracing Protocol
- The bracing strategy
- Aims of the treatment
- Rehabilitation detail
Patient stories
Learn about other patients’ recovery journeys and experience, to help and inspire
What is the ACL?
Learn about the ACL and how it supports your knee, what goes wrong and the history of treatment
What are my options?
Surgery is sometimes necessary to support healing, but sometimes it is not. And surgery always ages the knee.
How can we help?
Years of research has produced a treatment protocol that helps assess the injury and then heal the ACL without resoring to surgery
Patient Stories
We have documented many cases of patients who have successfully recovered by following the treatment protocol. Without surgery. Read these find inspiring stories of similar injuries, tips and experience of following the protocol
Sandra's story
Sandra's story
Natasa's Story
Mitch's story
Kaipo's story
Wafa's Story
Why follow the protocol?
Reduce time to recover
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Stronger body
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Lower chance of surgery
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Find a practitioner
We are building a database of practioners in the disciplines that support good ACL diagnosis and recovery
Good ACL healing will require a selection of skilled professionals. We are training them with the knowledge they need to follow our treatment protocol to reduce the time, cost and pain of healing.
These professionals will help you get back on your feet, and doing the things you love.
Physiotheraphists
Radiogaphers
Surgeons
Sports medicine
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medi webinar on Cross Bracing Protocol with Dr Tom Cross
Following acute injury to the ACL there has been until recently 2 main treatment options. These are presented below in addition to the novel 3rd treatment option for, The “Cross Bracing Protocol”.
The Cross Bracing Protocol
The Cross Bracing Protocol can be summarised as a weekly schedule of rehabilitation activities, supported with an appropriate bracing protocol
BJSM Cross Bracing Protocol Article
The Cross Bracing Protocol research paper, recently published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine, summarises years of research into developing a novel approach to treating ACL injuries without surgery.
Criteria for ACL Treatment Decisions
Following acute injury to the ACL there has been until recently 2 main treatment options. These are presented below in addition to the novel 3rd treatment option for, The “Cross Bracing Protocol”.
5 steps to healing an ACL
The ACL is arguably the most important ligament that stabilises the knee to facilitate a broad range of movements and activities. A progressive approach to healing is recommended
Sports and ACL Injury Risk
Sports that involve rapid changes in direction, pivoting/side stepping sudden stops, jumping and landing or physical contact can all place stress on the ACL (anterior cruciate ligament), making it susceptible to injury.