Medial Collateral Ligament Repair Using the InternalBrace™ Technique

James H. Lubowitz, MD (Taos, NM), demonstrates how he advances and repairs the medial collateral ligament (MCL) and demonstrates the InternalBrace™ technique. In this case, a young female athlete has a positive valgus stress test after a GraftLink^® ACL reconstruction. Dr. Lubowitz uses the sutures from the 4.75 mm SwiveLock^® anchor to stitch the MCL and advance it to the proximal SwiveLock anchor. The 4 mm-wide FiberTape^® suture runs the length of the MCL and is attached with a second posterior 4.75 mm SwiveLock anchor in the tibia for InternalBrace technique.

^{The InternalBrace surgical technique is intended only to augment the primary repair/reconstruction by expanding the area of tissue approximation during the healing period and is not intended as a replacement for the native ligament. The InternalBrace technique is for use during soft tissue-to-bone fixation procedures and is not cleared for bone-to-bone fixation.}