title: Editorial Commentary: There's No Time Like the Present if You Want to Save Your Mechanoreceptors!
abstract: The timing of stump-sparing surgery for the preservation of mechanoreceptors, volume of the anterior cruciate ligament stump, and number of Ruffini corpuscles matters, with longer delays leading to worse results for patients.
authors.forename: Ralph B
authors.initials: RB
authors.lastname: D'Agostino
mesh_terms: D016118:Anterior Cruciate Ligament / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008465:Mechanoreceptors