Anterior Cruciate Ligament tears have forced both amateur and professional athletes to end their participation in sports. ACL reconstructive surgery is perceived as one of the most common and invasive reconstructive surgeries an athlete can go through with over 100,000 procedures occurring annually (UCSF Sports Med 2014). More often than not, ACL reconstructive surgery can a patient in worse condition, even after having gone through the procedure. Orthopedic surgeons typically harvest tissue from another area of the body to reconstruct an ACL for a patient, which makes the healing process more painful, or they use a cadaver tendon which holds a slight but lethal risk for the patient receiving the cadaver tendon. Even with procedural advancements,
