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Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries are among the most frequent and difficult problems faced in sports medicine and orthopaedic practice. Despite substantial improvement in surgical intervention and rehabilitation protocol of ACLR, post-operative complications are still an important issue that can affect function, delay return to previous activities and potentially increase the risk of re-injury or future articular degeneration. These difficulties surface via an intricate interrelationship between biomechanical factors, surgical variables, biological healing influences and rehabilitation methods. ACL Repair Complications: Biomechanics to Rehabilitation has been designed as an integrated, multidisciplinary approach, addressing this complexity. Awesomeness intro Introduction The theoretical foundation of this book is that postoperative complications after ACL reconstruction cannot be properly dealt with and managed in an isolated way. Yet these elements should be considered along the entire continuum of care—from injury biomechanics, through surgical treatment and tissue healing to evidence-based rehabilitation and functional recovery in the long aeon. This book connects basic biomechanical skills with clinical applications. It discusses how abnormal joint loading, neuromuscular control deficiencies, graft selection and placement, and aberrant movement patterns lead to such complications as graft failure, residual instability, stiffness, pain syndromes, and early onset osteoarthritis. The same emphasis on rehabilitation as surgery is considered, understanding that this can also limit recovery if the loading is wrong, progression of exercise or neuromuscular control training is miss-managed for all technically successful surgeries. This volume, written by orthopedic surgeons, sports physicians,, physiotherapists, rehabilitation scientists and athletic trainers and postgraduate students is a comprehensive textbook for the management of such advanced treatments. The content is evidence-based where specialists, scientists and researchers in the field from around the world have written chapters that synthesise available research on a particular method including current research evidence, clinical insight, practical application and guidelines for decision making. Case-based and applied framework chapters present biomechanical perspectives on specific topics that demonstrate how theory translates into practice through in-depth study of clinical examples and practical applications for rehabilitation. Ultimately, the book is intended to foster a comprehensive and patientoriented approach to ACL care that extends beyond operative success while emphasizing long-term joint health, performance function, and quality of life. Combining biomechanics and rehabilitation in a single plot, we aim to help improve surgical safety and enhance the future of rehabilitation and patient outcomes for those rehabilitating from ACL repair.