The Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) is one of the key ligaments that help stabilize your knee joint. The ACL connects your thighbone (femur) to your shinbone (tibia).
The ACL (anterior cruciate ligament) is a band of tissue inside your knee. When your ACL is healthy, it helps to hold together the bones of your knee. It also helps to keep your knee stable.
It's most commonly torn during sports that involve sudden stops and changes in direction — such as basketball, soccer, tennis and volleyball. If it gets damaged, you may have trouble putting pressure on your knee, walking, or playing sports.
It gets damaged when it stretches or tears.
ACL injuries are common among people who play sports because they make movements that can put a lot of stress on the knee,
No. If you strain or slightly tear your ACL, it may heal over time with your doctor’s help and physical therapy. But if it’s completely torn, you may need to have it replaced -- especially if you’re young and active or an athlete who wants to keep playing sports. If you’re older or less active, your doctor might recommend treatments that don’t require surgery.
Grade 1: ⇾ The ligament is overstretched and less than 10% of the fibres are torn. Should heal naturally in a few weeks. Grade 2: ⇾ More of the fibres are torn but the ligament is still intact. May heal with a rehab programme or may require arthroscopic ACL surgery. Grade 3: ⇾The ligament is completely ruptured i.e. torn in two. Usually requires arthroscopic knee surgery.
ACL surgery is a procedure that doctors use to replace a torn ligament in your knee. When your doctor removes your torn ACL, they put a tendon in its place. (Tendons connect muscle to bone.) The goal is to get your knee stable again and give it the full range of motion it had before you got hurt.
The procedure takes about an hour. You may have regional anesthesia, when your doctor puts medicine in your back so you won’t feel anything in your legs for a few hours.
If you have regional anesthesia, you probably will also get medicine that helps you relax during the procedure.
The first step is to place the graft at the right spot. When the tendon is put into your knee, it’s known as a graft.
WE USE Autograft. Your doctor uses a tendon from somewhere else in your body (like your other knee, hamstring, or thigh).
Then, your doctor will drill two holes, called “tunnels.” They’ll put one in the bone above your knee and another in the bone below it. They’ll place screws in the tunnels to hold the graft in place. It serves as a sort of bridge that a new ligament will grow on as you heal. It can take months for a new ACL to grow in fully.
We use the most advanced technologies to help you heal better. We use self absorbable screws so that over few years there will be no screw inside your body.
