An Upstate doctor’s new way of performing surgery on the anterior cruciate ligament, or ACL, could signal a major medical breakthrough for athletes.Dr. Jay Shah, a member of the newly opened AnMed Health Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine Center, perfected a new, less painful type of surgery that mends the ACL. “He goes just above the patella, the kneecap, and removes or harvests the quadricep tendon,