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ACL Tear

Can An ACL Tear Heal Without Surgery?

The anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) is a ligament that helps to stabilize the knee joint and prevent the leg from sliding forward, as well as excessive movement in any one direction. While it is tough tissue, it can develop partial tears or tear completely. The ACL can become injured for a variety of reasons, but… 

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Can an ACL Tear Heal on Its Own?

While playing basketball, you went up for a rebound, but moments later, after you came down, you felt sharp knee pain, rapid swelling, loss of range of motion, and a feeling of instability.  What just happened? You might have torn your anterior crucial ligament (ACL) – a ligament in your knee responsible for connecting your… 

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Torn ACL Playing a Sport? What to Do Next

A torn ACL, or anterior cruciate ligament, is one of the most frequent sports injuries. Whether complete or partial, this tear limits knee mobility and range of motion causes pain and weight-bearing issues and keeps you from the activities you love. What should you and your orthopedic surgeon do next? Let’s delve deeper. How Does… 

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ACL Injury: What You Should Know

When you play sports, you put stress on your body to keep up with the game’s demands. Without proper training and technique, it can get risky. Your body might not be able to keep up, resulting in injuries. For athletes, an ACL injury is a death sentence and can spell the end of a sports… 

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How to Identify an ACL Injury

Each year, there are over 80,000 anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) repairs performed in operating rooms across the country. ACL injuries are very common, especially in people with more active lifestyles – particularly athletes. A suspected ACL injury should be evaluated soon after the incident. Treatment for an ACL injury will depend on the severity of… 

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Torn ACL Knee Injury: Symptoms, Causes, Treatment

When you’re constantly running and switching positions on the court or the field while playing sports, or if you are active in general, you could suffer an ACL (anterior cruciate ligament) knee injury. If this happens to you, you may hear a pop or feel a popping sensation in your knee. Your ACL is a… 

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Overview of ACL Reconstruction

An Anterior Cruciate Ligament or ACL tear is a common knee injury, particularly in very active people and athletes. It can cause pain, swelling, and instability in the knee, making many normal day-to-day activities difficult. Depending on the severity of the tear, ACL reconstruction surgery may be required to successfully repair the damage. The Anterior… 

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Recovery From An ACL Tear

One of the most common knee injuries that you can develop as someone with an active lifestyle is an ACL tear. Your ACL or anterior cruciate ligament is one of the components that help connect your thigh bone to your shin bone. It plays an important role in keeping your knee stable. It also prevents… 

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Recovery from an ACL Tear

The ACL, which is the anterior cruciate ligament, is an important ligament which is located in front of your knee, right behind the kneecap. This ligament provides knee stability along with its crisscrossed-in-back partner, the PCL (posterior cruciate ligament). They are called the “cruciate” ligaments because they cross each other in the shape of an… 

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