Today, the 20th March 2008
It is the 7th week of my recuperation after an ACL reconstruction arthroscopic surgery in Chennai and I wanted to share some of my experiences that are more India specific here.
As they say in statistics, this is among the most successful surgery on knee with less than 0.1% chances of failure. There are quite a few useful ACL surgery and post-surgery related contents in the web that are mainly US/Europe centric. Here is something that I feel is more India-ish, if one could say that.
I am neither a doctor, nor a physiotherapist. I'm no authorized medical person. I have been a patient who underwent this and would like to share some of the good and bad things as I went through this ACL reconstruction procedure
What is this ACL
If you have not heard of ACL so far, consider that it is for good. Ligament, as Wikipedia puts it, is a fibrous semi-elastic tissue that connects one bone to another bone, typically around a joint. The anterior cruciate ligament (or ACL) is one of the four major ligaments of the knee. It connects from the back side of the bottom part of the thigh bone with the upper part of one of the leg bone below the knee. You can google and find out more on this if you want. I'll capture only some details related to some of my experience that I feel others can relate and learn if they are unfortunate to get to tear off their ACL.
Flash back exactly four months back - Mid Dec 2007
... more on it later.
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