Munich (AP) — each year around 90 000 retire to Germany people to a cruciate ligament injury to the knee. Of which about 50 000 patients surgery experts reported on Thursday in Munich at the beginning of the 16th German Austrian Swiss Congress of sport orthopedics and sports traumatology. About 90 percent of these injuries occur at the sport, in particular foot and handball and skiing, the Heidelberg physicians and cruciate ligament specialist Hans Paessler is reported. The remaining portion as to accidents such as falls by bicycle or motorcycle riders. In a total break of up to three centimeters long cruciate ligament, this will be surgically replaced by a cruciate ligament plastic. This body tendon material will taken in Europe mostly the patient from the thigh, the experts reported. In the United States however, tendons from fresh-frozen parts would be increasingly used, said the Vienna then doctors Klaus. “We reject this procedure”, said Martin Engelhardt, the President of the German society for trauma and orthopaedic sports medicine (GOTS). The advantage of US method is, that wegfalle the arising from endogenous extraction and sometimes painful gap with scarring, said then. Disadvantages are but the great risk of a risk of infection and the risk of rejection by the body of the recipient. Although many questions in this direction are not at all yet, boome’s business of tissue banks with such tendon implants of corpses in the United States. The chances of success in Europe when operating replacement of cruciate ligament would be at least 95 percent, reported Paessler. 800 Doctors, as well as physical and sports therapists is expected to the Munich Conference. Among the speakers are also Klaus Eder, masseur of the German national football team. (ol)