What does ACL reconstruction surgery involve?
McCulloch: The surgery itself is done on an outpatient basis. We can’t repair that ACL so we just make a new one. … We’ll take a tendon — either from somewhere else on the patient’s knee or from a donor … it’s fixed to the femur and fixed to the tibia. Mishra: It typically is a much bigger deal than just a knee arthroscopy [the type of surgery Woods had in April]. You’ve got to reconstruct the ligament, which is a bigger challenge than doing just a meniscus surgery. It takes an hour and a half or two hours of time, depending on how they do it.
