Anterior Cruciate injured ACL injuries in sport

Football is popular in the UAE, Oman, Saudi Arabia and Bahrain. Each city in the Middle East has a large stadium and the game is played on the streets and playgrounds village. with the World Cup around the corner, many amateur footballers will try their skills in the game.

The game of football extracts a heavy toll of injuries injury and cartilage of the knee joint. These are the most injuries and injury affects the anterior cruciate injury is considered the most valuable piece of connective tissue like professional football teams to deliver contracts worth several million euro footballers and dollars and withdraw immediately if the player is injured. The Ministry YGEiAS hospitals in Oman, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia have a large number of knee injuries. There have been a larger number of new concepts in dealing with such injury.

ACL Injury (anterior cruciate ligament injury)

Anatomical background-

The ACL (anterior cruciate injury) is one of the four hinge knee stabilization tendons. Is cable joints such as tissues, which connects one bone to another. There are four common in knee tendon damage, i.e. bridging collateral (internal), lateral (outer), the anterior cruciate and posterior cruciate. The anterior cruciate injury runs behind the thigh-bone in the inner side of the shin bone or foot. This prevents bone leg from sliding in front of the thigh bone. ACL injury can be a partial or complete tear sprain

The mechanism of injury;

The most common mechanism is a sports injury where there is a cutting or twisting injury to the knee.

Activities for risk

Injuries in sports such as football when the Player tries to deal with from the back of the knee twists and drops to the ground. Activities in other sports such as Basketball, Cricket, skiing and hockey also can lead to injury ACLs. A blow to the knee from the front. S patient with cruciate injury injuries are prone to developing tears menisci (semilunar cartilages) and this may lead to secondary like osteoarthritis

Symptoms

A person falling within the territory and is unable to continue the sport or activity which it is seeking. This may feel or hear a popping sound in the knee joint. A swelling develops rapidly. There is a feeling of instability of knee implants. Pain in the knee immediately, deteriorating with the arrival of the swelling. Repeated gives away from the knee can occur as patient runs the around curves or while coming downstairs

What is the future for patient a with an ACL injury?

Full ACL injuries as a result of instability of the knee joint. Whenever a person who performs or coming down rapidly leg slides off the renal. This can lead to repeated falls. This may result in damage to the cartilages semilunar or menisci. Meniscal tears may lead to symptoms such as mechanical locking or unexpected falls.

A combination of persistent ligamentous laxity and meniscal tears may lead to the development of secondary osteo-arthritis.

Treatment-RICE

(Rest, ice, compression, elevation). An ACL injury is a serious need medicine care immediately. The surgeon may aspirate blood within the common to provide comfort. He can order a MRI scan to diagnosis confirm immediately. An ACL injury can be considered conservative in people who are willing to restrict their sporting activity. For those unwilling to do so, surgical treatment is appropriate. Surgical treatment consists of the examination under anesthesia, arthroscopy and ACL reconstruction. orthopaedic surgeon may decide to take a graft of the Patellar tendon damage or hamstrings. Bony tunnels are applied through the leg and femur and the graft is constant.

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