ACL signs and symptoms

Nowadays intensive excercise that challenge strong healthy people is accepted as a trend especially some outdoor activities like soccer, basketball and marathon running for collecting different miles. However, such activities sometime give us injury even symptoms can heal by itself and cause us to overlook; in fact, this could be latent sign hiding that wait to express when it is time especially ACL symptom

“Swollen Knee” Sign that should not be overlooked

The anterior cruciate ligament is a main organ that prevents the knee from injury such as twisting and improper move when it is ruptured a consequence that comes after is loss of body balance (partially) symptoms relate to this condition are as follows:

- Knee Cracking Sound while moving

- Knee pain that makes you do a tiptoe walk

- Legs swells 1-2 weeks (bleeding in knee joint) the body cannot cure by itself

- The leg swelling is smaller and gets back to normal, you can walk and run except zig zag

easy to get injured while playing sports or any activity

The first time when the pain disappear patients think a condition can cure by the body therefore seeing a doctor is unnecessary based on misunderstanding. Factually when condition left for long may lead to loosing knee joint which may also cause more damage to another organ for that reason it is important to receive screening from a doctor for more proper treatment and accurate result that prevent condition from more spreading.

ACL Treatment by Artificial Knee Joint Replacement

The expectation from every patient is to have their normal life back again receiving a treatment from experienced doctor must be considered for a success result; when patients arrive at hospital inquiring their personal information given by a doctor is a part of diagnosis process together with detailed X-ray to prevent the patient from returning to that injury. After the accurate diagnosis if it is necessary to have surgery, some ligament that plays secondary function will be used to replace injured ligament.

The doctor will perform a surgery using laparoscopy method causing size of wound about 1-2cm. with 2-3 spots of it on the knee’s area; moreover, taking ligament from another area to replace the injured ligament “ACL” will not harm the patient as the taken ligament comes from patient’s body which will not create any bad side effect; as a result, they can be able to go back to their normal life in addition, treatment effectiveness result of this process is considered to be working in long run.

Minimal invasive surgery

Since we know patients and their families always worry and frighten after hearing a word “Surgery” most of them need confirmation of certainty about a process especially time for recovery before returning back to normal life that patients always speculate about it. Doctor and nurses will inform them detail of surgical process starting from before a process during a process and after the process (recovery) to increase relatives and family more trust and understanding for the treatment.

For recuperation, with the remarkable invasive surgery called “Minimal invasive surgery” it helps reduce the size of surgical wound from being opened furthermore, losing blood during procedure is least also, an effect that impacts on connective tissues and organs are less as well as the size of the wound is small regarding the size therefore patients recover faster than open operation; for the laparoscopy it becomes popular approach especially for condition that cannot be cured by physical therapy for example disc repairing, knee joint’s skin cut, shoulder ligament surgery or fractured patella etc.

The anterior cruciate ligament is not scary as most of us think but always remember that when condition left for long it is considered as an accumulating of severe pain as well as every process of treatment should be given by a specialized doctor and team; good treatment will result in better improvement of patient’s symptoms so their knees will be able to function as usual.