What are the surgical treatments? How is the surgery done in ACL?

What are the surgical treatments? How is the surgery done in ACL?

Surgery to reconstruct a torn ACL is done with a graft of a tendon (tendons connect muscles to bones) from your body, such as a hamstring (from the back of the thigh), or the kneecap/patellar tendon (from the front of the knee). Occasionally, a cadaver tendon (a tendon from someone who died and donated his/her body to science) can be used in older individuals who are still very active. Cadaver tendons are typically not used in young athletes because of the higher rates of re-tear.

The surgery is minimally invasive, which means that instead of making a large incision with a scalpel, the surgeon uses an arthroscope, a thin wand-like instrument. The surgeon inserts the arthroscope and the working instruments through small incisions in your knee.