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Originally Posted by Triple
They gave me a cadaver ligament. They don't tell you who it came from, though, so it makes me wonder: do I have the ACL from a 90 year-old woman in my leg?
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They won't tell you exactly where it came from but there are certain benchmarks the donor must meet to be "parted out".
There are three options, cadaver "donation", patella graft and hamstring graft.
I'm about 6' and 210 lbs. The surgeon told me straight out I weighed too much and did too much lifting at work for the hamstring graft to work well. The patella graft is 150% stronger than the original ACL.