POP! Your ACL just snaps in half. The pain is unbearable. It feels like your knee is just hanging because nothing is holding the back part of your knee together. You are scared to get the MRI results back because it is a huge setback. “You’ve torn your ACL.” Those are words an athlete never wants to hear.
What is Your ACL?
You may be wondering what your ACL is and what it does? Your ACL is the Anterior Cruciate Ligament. It is one of the four ligaments that stabilizes your knee so there is no excessive forward movement. The ACL also controls the twisting and rotation of your knee. So in other words, it is a pretty important part of your knee.
How Do You Tear Your ACL? Sudden movement or change in direction when you are trying to plant your foot with a locked knee is when you are most vulnerable to tear your ACL (Wedro). Some common symptoms you should expect when you tear your ACL is a loud pop from the ligament stretching so far it tears. I know you probably don’t want to hear this, but following that will be excruciating pain. After all that follows a lot of swelling. To decrease the swelling, make sure to apply a ample amount of ice on your knee. A torn ACL can possibly be prevented by lifting weights to make your leg …show more content…
The goal for the injured person is to be in as good as shape that they were in before the injury occurred. The only way to achieve this goal is if he or she is willing to put in a lot of hard work. It is not easy to recover from an ACL injury. It takes months of rehab, and you have to be diligent on the stretches so you can regain full strength in your ACL. It is also crucial that the patient listens to and follows the doctor's directions exactly. Any little thing can cause re-injury to it and you would have to go through that grueling process again. You’re better off taking it serious the first time so you don’t have to go through it a second
What is Your ACL?
You may be wondering what your ACL is and what it does? Your ACL is the Anterior Cruciate Ligament. It is one of the four ligaments that stabilizes your knee so there is no excessive forward movement. The ACL also controls the twisting and rotation of your knee. So in other words, it is a pretty important part of your knee.
How Do You Tear Your ACL? Sudden movement or change in direction when you are trying to plant your foot with a locked knee is when you are most vulnerable to tear your ACL (Wedro). Some common symptoms you should expect when you tear your ACL is a loud pop from the ligament stretching so far it tears. I know you probably don’t want to hear this, but following that will be excruciating pain. After all that follows a lot of swelling. To decrease the swelling, make sure to apply a ample amount of ice on your knee. A torn ACL can possibly be prevented by lifting weights to make your leg …show more content…
The goal for the injured person is to be in as good as shape that they were in before the injury occurred. The only way to achieve this goal is if he or she is willing to put in a lot of hard work. It is not easy to recover from an ACL injury. It takes months of rehab, and you have to be diligent on the stretches so you can regain full strength in your ACL. It is also crucial that the patient listens to and follows the doctor's directions exactly. Any little thing can cause re-injury to it and you would have to go through that grueling process again. You’re better off taking it serious the first time so you don’t have to go through it a second