Treatment of ACL Injury

Initial treatment for an ACL injury aims to scale back pain and swelling in your knee, regain traditional joint movement and strengthen the muscles around your knee.

You and your doctor can then decide if you wish surgery and rehabilitation, or rehabilitation alone. the selection depends on many factors, as well as the extent of harm to your knee and your willingness to change your activities.

Athletes who would like to come to sports involving cutting, pivoting or jumping typically pursue surgical reconstruction to stop episodes of instability. More-sedentary people typically will maintain knee stability with rehabilitation alone.

Therapy
Rehabilitation therapy are required, whether or not or not you have got surgery on your knee. Therapy can include:

• The employment of crutches and, possibly, a knee brace
• Range-of-motion exercises to regain your full knee motion
• Muscle-strengthening and stability exercises

 

Surgical and different procedures 

• Arthrocentesis. An ACL injury tends to cause bleeding within the knee, which may cause important swelling. This swelling may be reduced by arthrocentesis, a procedure within which a needle is inserted into the knee joint to draw off the surplus fluid.

• Surgical reconstruction. A torn ACL cannot be successfully sewn back along, therefore the ligament is replaced with a chunk of tendon from another a part of your leg. This surgery is typically performed arthroscopically through little incisions around your knee joint. A camera is employed to guide the location of the ACL graft.