As a former Christopher Newport University women’s basketball player, Tamara Atkins has stayed active—so when an ACL tear sidelined the athlete, Tamara Atkins sought a sports medicine specialist and chose Dr. Nicholas Sablan at Tidewater Orthopaedics based on strong recommendations; in this video, Dr. Sablan performs Tamara Atkins’s ACL reconstruction at the CarePlex Ambulatory Surgery Center at Sentara CarePlex and explains the procedure step-by-step, and if you’ve experienced a sports-related knee injury and want to return to the activities you love, contact Tidewater Orthopaedics to request an appointment with Dr. Nicholas Sablan.