Knee surgery doesn't necessarily cut short a professional football career, a researcher reported at an orthopedic conference in Keystone, Colorado, Saturday.

Robert H. Brophy, an assistant professor in the Department of Orthopedic Surgery at the Washington University School of Medicine and assistant team physician for the St. Louis Rams, delivered a paper on his study of two new surgeries at the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine's annual meeting.

He found football players who had anterior-cruciate ligament reconstruction have a longer playing career than those who have a simple meniscus repair.

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