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How is ACL reconstruction surgery done?

April 26, 2017ACL knee reconstruction surgery

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How is ACL reconstruction surgery done?

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Because it’s inside the knee joint, the ACL does not have its own blood supply—so if you tear your ACL, it can’t heal itself. During an ACL reconstruction, a ligament is taken from somewhere else in your body and reconstructed across the knee joint to re-create your ACL. Operating through the arthroscope, the surgeon uses a piece of the patellar (kneecap) tendon, a hamstring tendon or a donated allograft tendon to reconstruct a torn ACL.