The principles involve immediate knee motion, early functional use of the knee, early intervention with rehabilitation techniques if motion or strength is limited, allowing time for healing, maximizing neuromuscular training, and graduated return to high intensity sports to avoid injury. If your knee is loose and unstable, you continue to have pain, swelling, and giving-way, and you've already had your ACL reconstructed, then your surgery may have failed. You should seek treatment with a center and orthopaedic surgeon highly trained and experienced with ACL revision surgery. We see patients from around the world who have had prior knee surgery and problems have occured. With our extensive experience, we have develped procedures, techniques, and rehablitation programs that are specially designed to help patients still attempt to achieve a good result.
Patients benefit from having the surgery repeated to prevent further damage to the knee joint.
ACL revision surgery can be performed with either autografts or allografts. In addition, the meniscus and articular cartilage can deteriorate from repeated damage to the knee. ACL revision surgery is still the preferred choice to prevent further arthritis development and improve quality of life.