Orthopedic care helps young football player tackle a torn ACL.

Jeremiah Stevens is all about football. But two years ago, an anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) tear in his knee during a Perth Amboy High School football game almost permanently sidelined him.

“The injury was so severe that Jeremiah and I feared he would never play again,” says his mother, Mara Santos. Luckily, the team’s physician was Kenneth Swan, M.D., director of the Division of Orthopedic Surgery and medical director of the Human Motion Institute at Raritan Bay Medical Center.

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