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Watch this animation video to learn about what happens during an anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction surgery. • Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) tear is a common sports injury. When it happens, you will often hear a ‘pop’, feel pain or that the knee has shifted out of place, and develop significant swelling in just a few hours. It’s usually sustained in sports which involves rapid change in direction, jumping and landing motions, e.g. soccer, basketball, etc. • Depending on the severity of your ACL injury, treatment may include rest and rehabilitation exercises, or ACL reconstructive surgery to replace the torn ligament. • It is a keyhole procedure involving the removal of the torn ACL and replacing it with a tendon taken from another part of the knee. • Steps in the ACL reconstructive surgery: • Small incisions are made around the knee • A camera is inserted into one incision to view the inside of the knee joint • Surgeon performs the surgery by inserting instruments through another incision • A graft is harvested from the knee • Portions of the torn ACL is removed • A tunnel for the graft is created by drilling into the thigh and shin bones • The graft is pulled up through the knee joint into the tunnels of the shin and thigh bones • The top end of the graft is fixed onto the thigh bone using a button and the other end is fixed onto the shin bone using a bioabsorbable screw • Over the next nine months, the graft will integrate into the tunnel. • To learn more about the condition, visit https://www.nuh.com.sg/Health-Informa... • For an appointment with NUH, visit • https://www.nuh.com.sg/patients-visit... • Follow NUH on social media: • Subscribe to NUH's Youtube channel and visit us at https://www.nuh.com.sg • Facebook: / nationaluniversityhospital • Instagram: / nuhig • LinkedIn: / national-university-hospital • About National University Hospital (NUH) (Singapore): • NUH is Singapore's major tertiary hospital and referral centre with over 50 medical, surgical and dental specialties. It is the only public hospital in Singapore to offer a comprehensive suite of specialist care for adults, women and children as well as paediatric kidney and liver transplant programme, in addition to kidney, liver and pancreas transplantations for adults.
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