Evaluation of General Sources

There will always be controversy when it comes to health. Everyone has their own beliefs of the “best” way to treat something. In these two articles the strategy in question concerns the Anterior Cruciate Ligament, more commonly known as the ACL.

Source 1

URL: This source is from Healio which is a site concerning all aspects of health care. This site concerns health all around the world and has a .com address.

Author: Donald Fithian, MD. He is the Fellowship Director in San Diego. He is a surgeon that specializes in knee and shoulder reconstruction.

Last Updated: The article does not say when it was most recently updated.

Purpose: The purpose of this article is to point out the controversies associated with certain techniques used to preform a full ACL reconstruction and whether or not it leads to osteoarthritis (OA).

Graphics: There are no graphics on this website other than the picture of the author. This helps offer validity to the article because the reader can relate the name of the author to a real face.

Position on Subject: The article states that reconstructive surgery of the ACL does not restore the knee to the function it was before injury, as misconceived by most people. Fithian takes the position that surgery will not be perfect and because of that there will be an onset of negative side effects such as OA.

Links: There are links on the side of the article that are titled “See Also” and “Featured” that take you to other articles within Healio.

Source 2

Simington, Carter. "Fig. (1)".9/5/2015. Public Domain.

URL: This article is written by National Center for Biotechnological Information. It has a .gov address.

Author: There are several authors to this article. James Min-Leong Wong, Tanvir Khan, Chethan S Jayadev, Wasim Khan, and David Johnstone.

Last Updated: The article was not updated since it was published online July 27, 2012.

Purpose: The purpose of this article was to talk about the negatives that are associated with an ACL rupture. One thing that was talked about was whether or not Osteoarthritis is existent in patients after they receive surgery of their ACL.

Graphics: There are several pictures that mainly depict the structure of the knee. All of the pictures are taken on the form of X-ray.

Position on Subject: The position on this article is that ACL surgery causes a couple of problems post surgery. One of those problems is OA.

Links: There are a few links in this article. Some of the links are for the authors so that we can get more information and credibility about them. There are also some links that take you to a new article that is related to this article.