When I tore my ACL, nobody gave me a choice. For years the knee-jerk reaction to an ACL injury was “You’ll need surgery” The thinking was that an ACL cannot heal and the only way to regain stability to return to sport was to have a reconstruction. But research is showing that this may not be the case. What Does The Research Actually Say? Several high quality trials and cohort studies have changed how we think about ACL management. The KANON trial found no meaningful differ