About BonedocACL

Available From App Store

Bonedoc ACL is a serious game developed to enhance the understanding and performance of arthroscopic ACL reconstruction. It follows the spirit of the original Bonedoc project — making surgical learning accessible, interactive, and engaging for trainees, students, and enthusiasts of orthopaedic surgery.

Purpose

Like its predecessor, Bonedoc ACL represents an implementation of the principle “See One, Do One, Teach One.” You can first watch training clips on this site to understand the procedure, then perform your own virtual ACL reconstruction within the app, and finally share or demonstrate the experience to others interested in orthopaedics.

  • View of Theatre
  • A Virtual X-ray

Key Features

  • Practice creating accurate femoral and tibial tunnels within a realistic virtual operating theatre.
  • Experiment with different anatomical tunnel placements and assess their biomechanical implications.
  • Test whether the femoral tunnel position can be achieved inline with the tibial tunnel based on scope orientation and knee flexion.
  • Receive detailed feedback on surgical accuracy and key aspects of tunnel placement.
  • Perform essential tasks such as positioning the arthroscope, adjusting knee flexion at any time, and locating all anatomic insertion points.

Training Environment and Feedback

The app simulates realistic operating theatre and arthroscopic views. Practising multiple times on the same patient allows insights into the correlations between different locations of tibial and femoral tunnels.

Immediate post-surgery you’ll see how close your tunnels are to ideal insertion sites, and receive commentary about tendon length, dependant on exact knee flexion — something rarely possible during real surgery. This includes 'virtual dissection' which provides real-time view of exact tunnel placement

While Bonedoc ACL does not yet support Game Center integration, the scoring and opportunity to share feedback system encourage self-improvement and competition among trainees in the same institution.

Looking Ahead

Our goal is that Bonedoc ACL becomes an indispensable learning tool: a safe, repeatable, and motivating environment for refining arthroscopic skills. Whether you are starting a surgical career or preparing for your first ACL reconstruction in the operating theatre, the app offers an opportunity to gain confidence before you ever hold the real instruments.

  • One of the results pages
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Privacy Policy

The BonedocACL app and its developer take your privacy very seriously. Beyond the information Apple provides to developers that you can decide to provide, It uses no third-party analytics or advertising frameworks. The BonedocACL app only stores a code on how well you have performed virtual surgery for each virtual patient, so you can proceed to next patient if you have performed well. This remains on your device.

The BonedocACL app does not transmit, distribute or sell your data.

 

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