The Posterior cruciate ligament (PCL) is one of the key ligaments that help stabilize your knee joint. The PCL connects your thighbone (femur) to your shinbone (tibia).
The PCL (posterior cruciate ligament) is a band of tissue inside your knee. When your PCL 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. PCL injuries are common among people who play sports because they make movements that can put a lot of stress on the knee, like: ➤ Changing direction quickly (cutting) ➤ Stopping suddenly ➤ Planting your foot and pivoting ➤ Landing wrong after a jump
Doctors typically use arthroscopic surgery on your PCL. This means they insert tiny tools and a camera through small cuts around your knee. This method causes less scarring of the skin than open-knee surgery does.
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 PCL 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.
As with any type of surgery, there are risks with PCL surgery. In general, surgery may cause:
➤ Bleeding at the wound ➤ Infection ➤ Blood clots ➤ Breathing issues ➤ Reaction to Anesthesia
With PCL surgery in particular, the risks include:
➤ Knee pain ➤ Stiffness in your knee ➤ A graft not healing well ➤ A graft failing after you return to physical activity
