A Research Journey

The target audience would be those who work in the medical field and possible surgery patients.  Athletes are usually at the highest risk of damaging their ligaments because of the movements that they create with their bodies.  Because of the strenuous activity being performed during sports, an athlete’s weight is constantly being shifted causing an unbalance on the muscles and joints.  This sometimes leads to a joint moving in a way outside of its range of motion, which can create tearing of a ligament or worse.  A typical recovery period of a sports related injury to a ligament is several months (5-6) in addition to 4-6 weeks of therapy.  As stated in the introduction, the use of an allograft increases the possibility of a more efficient recovery period and the idea of a silk structured graft can increase the producing of allografts.