Just got this surgery yesterday and it’s a lot more chill than I was expecting. The pain rn is less than when I actually tore my ACL. For anyone worried, about to go through this, it’s gonna be a lot better than u expect.

Anybody who's feeling frustrated from ther injury, you're not alone, but we can get through this!

Surgery has always fascinated me. The fact that you can cut someone open. Fix their insides and stitch them back together and still be alive is amazing.

Medical science is an absolute WONDER. This is SO cool and so amazing, and I genuinely hope it gives new hope to people who need this kind of repair done to a damaged ACL. I had heard that we could fix these ACL tears now, but I didn't know they actually learned how to make your body grow a NEW one. That's WILD! I'm literally mind blown. Good luck to anyone suffering with this, looks like you're in good hands!

my own injury brought me here

Had an ACL reconstruction and partial meniscectomy 3 weeks ago. The first few days are the hardest (physically and mentally) but it gets better with time. Slowly getting ROM and strength through physio. We got this 💪

It's not the surgery that makes it the hard part...it's the comeback that you will decide after the surgery

Wow..this is amazing! Props to all who did research to make this possible.

Writing this after 5 months of ACL surgery in my left leg.Had much pain during first 2 weeks and was able to walk without scrutches.Now i have started jogging, walking,going to gym as well ! Almost recovered fully.Don't hesitate to undergo this surgery and it's really worth.surgery is just like 20% of recovery and rest is physiotherapy 😊

Just completed the surgery two days ago,it wasn't that painful as I expected, hoping to get in prior lifestyle as soon as possible, those who are suffering from the same problem,may Allah help you all to recover from it soon❤

Lucky to say I've never had to go through this surgery but wish everyone who does the best of luck and a speedy recovery

Had mine done in 94 used both patellar and hamstring for the graft. Rehabbed the hell out of it as I was a serious athlete and 28 years later i have had zero issues. MY carpenter did an outstanding job.

Im 19 years old and for the first ever the captain of my football team, i play near the proffesional level so i really wanted to impress this year, i trained almost everyday of this summer vacation and went a lot to the gym. And in my 2nd pre season match i tore my acl… in other words my season is over and im not sure i will ever get to this level again. Im really devistated and so sad right now, i might never get this chance again. Life can be cruel

Going through my second acl surgery. I had my first one 10 years ago.. The recovery was great, was back in active sport in less than 6 months.. Stay positive and active..

The most important football week of my life was about to happen: Trials for a top football team, training with senior team, and then go to play in a tournament with top class scouts. Yesterday I was trialing for the club, 30 minutes later I tore my ACL... This would be the worst experience I ever had physically and emotionally. If anyone else is going through the same, Chin up champ You’ll come back stronger 💪

i have done this injury 8 weeks ago doing bulgarian split lunges. these comments have helped me not to worry too much. thankyou

Just had a complete ACL reconstruction 2 days ago, and once the nerve blocks wear off, that's when you feel the actual pain. My ACL was completely torn, and was just hanging off. I had partial tear to it 3 months ago, and had it repaired. 2 weeks ago, I was walking with the crutches, and brace when it popped, quite loud, and I had some pain immediately. I didn't know what just happened, and after few hours, I was kind of ok to carry on. Two days later, same thing happened again, only this time I was in much more pain. I will be spending the next 16 weeks in a brace. Wishing everyone else a speedy recovery, God bless you all! :)

i had it 4 months ago. in the middle of my PT now. wasnt bad at all, just prepare for a lot of leg days in gym :D

Had this done 4 years ago. It get better and better over time.

Wow it’s amazing how the graft can get stronger over time. Also cool to know your hamstrings regenerate over time😅. Awesome vid!!

i got surgery 6 days ago (october 20th, 2020). I had broken it on november 2019, so in the middle i trained hard. I had strong and flexible legs and body just before surgery. After it happened, I almost had no pain, good mobility, and so far I keep strong enough. Actually the day after surgery I started some exercises. Im sharing my experience because it is not always painful or terrible. It depends on each person. So live your experience and try to not compare yourself with others. Positive mind and patience.

Thank you so much, i'm confident enough now. I got my acl surgery done 2days back and i'm a bit confident now. I'm trying to walk with a little support..and the pain is minimal now. Hope i'll recover soon..

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I had acl reconstruction with hamstring in 2011. I ran again in 6 weeks! Rehab strong!

3 and half years ago I had my knee done with this metode of ACL surgery...after recovery, my knee was perfect, also had meniscuses done, never had a pain after that. But a lot of work in the gym then. Anyone who is hesitant to undergo, it's worth it!!!

I''ve had two ACL surgeries one in 2011 & two weeks ago. Your worst pain is the first day. Excerise, icing, & physical therapy are the top three things to get back to your old self or even better. My surgeons were great & I'm back playing basketball. Good luck to you all (:

I had this surgery back in 2003. Seventeen years later it's still doing well. I remember I strengthened my leg like crazy prior to surgery (I had 2 months until my surgery). Those 4 incisions turned my leg to mush. The entire back of my leg was the color of plumb when the took the wraps off 3 days later! If you get the surgery, then be sure to take the physical therapy seriously. I am not gonna lie...it hurts when they bend your knee to break up that scar tissue! However, if you want full range of motion, then it needs to happen. The strengthening exercises aren't painful. Just that leg bend thing! When I was in PT there was a college basketball player at the same. She cried in pain every time they pushed her heel towards her back side and I almost cried right along with her. It was the community of pain and thankfully...full recovery!

It’s so interesting how the body adapts and knows what certain parts need to fit a certain function

Great video! My daughter during the last trainnig of the season and before final match ruptured her ACL and torn meniscus. Disaster, she was divasteted!!! Tomorrow 4wks since she had a surgery, the pain she had to go through was unbelivable. Wish a quick recovery to everyone who is so unlucky to have this kind an injury.

Had it done 4 weeks ago, I can now walk about 500m without any help!! Your physical therapy is very important!! Hope you all recover fast after this operation.

wow. thiis is nice to know how my doctor did it. visual makes it clearer. i wish they show video like this prior to surgery during your doctors visit.

Just got mine done 4weeks in and I can’t wait for the ligaments to form and get stronger great video 🥶💯👍🏾😁…

Absolutely amazing! I read somewhere that the biceps femoris tendon is actually stronger than the ACL. I don't think they simply insert the tendon into position either; I could be wrong, but I believe it gets twisted, in order to further increase the strength. It shows when you see these football players return, and look as if they were never injured in the first place. This WAS a career-ender probably as recently as the '80s or '90s! Edit: depending on which tendon is grafted, the tendon isn't twisted, it's folded to increase strength.

Almost a month into my rehab. It’s painful doing the physical therapy but if you do it correctly and religiously you will achieve fast results! Just have to stay positive and think trust the process. Just with a few days of cracking down and not baby my knee I’m feeling strength and range of motion coming back.

I always think about how amazing it is that someone thought of this, had to be tested and proven successful, and now it’s an easily repeatable procedure.

2 years ago a glass door broke in and went through my knee. After 2 surgeries my ACL broke again and i have to go through another surgery. Hope this time it goes well because I don’t know what my life would be without any kind of sport 🥺

As an avid sports and wrestling fan, I've always wondered why an ACL tear is a season ending injury. Now I know why and why it hurts so much! Very easy to follow and understand video that is highly educational

I just had the surgery yesterday morning (21 hours ago) and the nerve block is finally wearing off but to those who are worried about having this, the pain is not as bad as you think it will be.

Tore my PCL, MCL, ACL, and LCL last January. Therapy hasn't been easy but I'm happy to be working again. Still struggles but I'm blessed.

I didnt expect these much comments about Klay. Funny im here because of him too. Wishing him a speedy recovery.

Here after klay’s injury. He’ll come back better and stronger!

Just had this done today. Fun facts: hamstring graft creates an ACL around 4x stronger than a natural ACL once it's fully recovered, with only losing a maximum of 5% of hamstring strength (not a big deal, imagine curling 100 lbs with one and 95 with the other). Cadaver tissue usually isn't too good because it's not living and it's usually of older people who have more "mileage" on their ACL which makes it more fragile. Patellar tendon grafts are strong, but not as strong as hamstring.

The quality of this video is amazing, Great work!

Dude this is so cool!!! You can use a TENDON to replace a LIGAMENT and it literally MORPHS into a ligament

A year and a half ago, was en route to a gas leakage call. My firehouse was despatched. Fully torned my ACL as well as meniscus due to the heavy weight of the bunker gear, BA cylinder and rescue tools. Knee snapped. Ran awkwardly to the scene. Told my commander that my leg felt like breaking. Came back to my firehouse, received medical attention to my swollen knee by medics and emt, went hospital the next day after shift ends, xray but unable to show what happened. MRI scanned and it shows clearly how badly my injury was... Recovered within 6 months after surgery, able to run(jog,sprint eventhough it will put on some pain), crawl(though it will hurt my surgical scar) squat, play sports and pretty much everything. Though the pain is on/off till this day. But till today, i tried taking extra precaution. Cause i know i wont be a good thing if it happen again.. TAKE CARE PEOPLE!

This must be the new way, cause I had my knee cap tendon harvested as the ACL replacement, and I had 4 screws drilled in to hold it in place. Then they stapled my meniscus. And man, 25 years later it feels like surgery was done yesterday on some days. Still don't have full range of motion, can't straighten my leg completely and yes I went to PT religiously.

I blew my Acl out 30 years ago. I didn't want reconstruction then because they used metal screws. So I healed lifted weights. Eventually got back to playing football and a season of rugby. But now I'm occasionally having problems. This video gives me hope. Glad I waited

Had my ACL reconstruction surgery on 24/7/2023. Felt pain heavily after the surgery as soon as the anaesthesia effect went down, just for the first night. After that, I didn't feel much pain, and just a little bit of swelling, that's it. My recovery journey has been so good so far...

I love medical videos like this, thank you!

Left knee ACL Reconstruction done. 2 months out. Right knee done 20 years ago. Damn basketball.

Best explanation I’ve seen so far. Thank you!

This video is 12 years old so apparently the major updates are hamstring graft is out, quadricep graft is now preferred, and Lateral Extraarticular Tenodesis is now often used in conjunction with quadricep ACLR for additional support. In other words, be glad you messed up your knee now instead of 20 years ago lol

People who actually know about the struggle of going through this. Speedy recoveries for everyone

I am officially one year post op from this surgery! (My one year video is on my channel) but I am SO HAPPY I went through this surgery!!!! I tore it two years ago doing flips, and had surgery one year ago. I am now back to doing flips again (which I haven't been able to do since I've torn it) and i am soooooo happy. This is definitely worth doing. It is hard at first, but over time once everything heals, you can continue life as though "nothing" happened. Or at least that's what I'm able to do.

Just had the surgery and there was pain after but honestly it is not as bad as I thought and very manageable. I’m 5 days after and the worst was first 2/3 days. After that it’s not bad at all and all uphill. Y’all got this💪

All my ligaments apart from my PCL ruptured due to a football injury (2021.09.04.) Rn I am waiting for this surgery that will be done on the 26th of november. I am 19 currently and the first month was just horrible. The thoughts like ,,why me” ,,my life’s ruined” slowly turned me into kinda depressed. Luckily I am okay now and got the right mindset to kill this shit no question. If I can give one advice to everyone who just got similar injuries , just forgot about these toxic thoughts give yourself 1-2 days until you let the fact that you’re injured settle in after that realize your life just changed, forgot your goals,plans that you had before. Your new goal is to make a 100% recovery. Keep it strong everyone❤️

Had surgery a few months ago. Frustrating experience to say the least. Biggest fear I'm sure others have had is the confidence to play competitive sports again. I'm 32 and have played a lot. I'm thinking of just quitting sports like football and basketball and just staying active in safer ways (swimming, softball, running, gym) My biggest fear is tearing it again and having to go through this again.

I had surgery like 5 days ago and the pain is unimaginable, and trust you’re going to get irritated of just resting the whole day for months ☹️

I've torn both ACLS and meniscus. The second ACL surgery I had to get a microfracture surgery being due to me tearing out my cartilage as well. Have you ever fallen asleep on your arm and poked it, that stinging sensation? That's what my shin feels like now and I've gotten that surgery back in 2008

Day after my surgery and since the anesthesia wore off the pain really sucks but starting PT tomorrow so looking forward to moving again! :)

Thank you so much... For sharing your wide knowledge... Now I know.... I was ostheoastritis step 1...and undercover by orthopedi do the Fisioterapi and exercise

The week after my operation was the hardest week of my life. I had the patella tendon graft surgery done on my ACL. I swear, you're constantly doped up on pills the whole week after.

So I’ve never had surgery before and I’m having an acl surgery tomorrow because mine was ruptured so bad that it didn’t show up on the mri and this makes less nervous so thank you 🙏

I just had an acl reconstruction 4 weeks ago it is really cool to see this and now can understand what my surgeon is telling me about really good video

This video is very relieving. I need to have this procedure done in three weeks and it feels great to know what will happen.

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Excellent video and description.

I needed this surgery 40 yrs ago !

Im getting this done soon and im xcited :)

When my acl tore it also yanked up a chunk of bone they had to shave down, painful as flip

Thank you, fantastically made video so informative, that even a lay man, can easily understand it.

I had a bucket tear, completely severed ACL and had my reconstruction surgery last week. For anyone a little anxious about the surgery, don’t be. It’s basically just going for a sleep. You have a small needle go into the top of your hand to feed the general anaesthetic and that’s it, wake up 2 hours later and it’s done. Expect a lot of swelling afterwards, and there was discomfort for the first day or two but then the pain went away quickly. Now I’m just waiting for the swelling to recede so I can focus on increasing my range of movements.

I dislocated my knee and tore my acl mcl and lcl I get surgery in a couple hours wish me luck

I tore my ACL two years ago and had this surgery. I went back to sport 6 months ago after extensive rehabilitation and, sadly, on Friday just passed, I have torn the same ACL. I think my soccer career is over after this. I ain't getting any younger. It's challenging, disheartening, and painful. I know what I face in the coming year and have to remain optimistic. A shoutout to all my ACL brothers and sisters!

Im 3 days after surgery. Almost every movement hurts so bad I cry like a baby but despite it Im doing excercises 3 times a day for 20-30 minutes. I cannot stress how important it is to get your knee to straight position. If you cannot get your knee straighten untill week 6, you may never fully recover and graft can easily snap, in 2 years. Almost no one talks about it. They just tell you what to do without telling why is this so important. I just had my acl done and started excercising the next day after surgery, timing might be different if you had other things done but its very important not to neglect it.

im 2 months post operation. recovery is going great. don't be nervous!

i have had 3. I had my left ACL repaired through patella graft my junior year in high school, my right repaired using patella my freshman year in college, and more recently a cadaver tendon used for my right as i retore it. From my experience as a college level athlete DO THE CADAVER. Many studies speak on the efficacy of each method, usually settling on hamstring is best for women athletes and patella men as our bodies are stronger on specific muscle groups. After speaking with multiple people who had the hamstring graft and myself going through the patella graft i can say that both cause many long term problems such as hamstring sprains/weakness, hamstring tears, and range of motion on bending, or like myself severe patellar tendonitis and range of motion on extension. In the end the cadaver healing process was 100X easier as my range of motion came back, there was less stitches (the patellar scar is 4-5 inches long down the front of your knee), less swelling, i was able to walk sooner and therapists typically feel more comfortable with you doing strength training sooner. After doing a lot of research on the subject for my most recent reconstruction (as i still play soccer recreationally) i didn't find enough evidence for hamstring/patellar being superior to warrant it. One of my biggest mistakes in my life will have been doing the patellar grafts and i will forever look on my knee scars wishing i did the cadavers. If you are looking at this video to prepare, take my advice and do some research on the recovery process of each as that is the MOST important part, and the cadaver recovery is so much easier. recovering from the patellar surgery felt like pure torture.

I'm 3 weeks post the operation and busy with rehabilitation phase its a great feeling knowing I'll be active again. 9 months is a very long way to go

Very informative clip. I'm looking forward to my surgery now.

I’m 16 years post op with this same exact procedure. My knee still feels great.

I had this done 3 years ago and my knee is back to normal like how it was before the injury. It was fully healed in 10 months

I have torn my acl, pcl and damaged my meniscus over the course of 4 years, consider yourself lucky if you didn't get someting else along with an ACL tear...

Just have my acl surgery 4 weeks ago. Took me 6 yrs b4 agreeing bcoz of repeated injury I encountered. Just too afraid of the surgery but turns out to be a good decision. Now my knee is reconstructed I will not be always be bothered of my unstable knee everyday. After the rehab and my knees if fully healed I can go back to my active lifestyle which was denied to me 6yrs of my life. Advice don't be afraid of the surgery!

I'm currently on the wait list for this operation. I have torn of my frontal acl and a small portion of my miniscus. Also there is a part of my bone (0.5cmx1.2cm) chilling loosely in my knee. I got this while practicing jiu jitsu... I can say with confidence that sports aren't always healthy... I really hope that I recover fast and that i can get back to my full time college since my law degree won't wait..

I've been dancing professionally for 13 years and never had an injury until I slipped during a performance and completely tore my ACL. I am getting surgery this month. A bit nervous after reading all your comments. I was told I will be able to dance after 4 months with intense physio. but I guess it is dependent on the person and surgery itself.

Omg do I not know what D Rose has gone through that looks rly painful

HI! IT SO NICE TO SEE THIS VIDEO U CAN REALLY UNDERSTAND THE PROCEDURE AND YOU CAN ASSIST NEXT . THANKS AND CONGRATULATIONS. RAYA !

thank you very much for this video. i recently went through an acl reconstruction surgery in Korea. this video was informative to understand how the surgery was done 👍

I will have mine next Monday...wish that 1st day fly...

Awesome video. I ripped mine 2 years ago but after my operation i'm stronger than i've ever been!

I tore mine when I was 18. had a job as tissue recovery tech later on in life. was interesting seeing and cutting the ligament to separate the tibia and fibia

Excellent explanation. I'm going to have to have this done on my left knee sometime this year.

Having the operation done tomorrow!

Well well, just had surgery last month and now heading week 4, God bless you all.

I lay here in my day the 3rd day after my acl surgery. It all went good but my knee hurts alot right now, cant wait to start the training to get back on track.

Looking forward to this soon🙃 stomach felt a bit weird watching this video

7 months on and I’m going strong 💪

I had a partial tear but I left it, i then fully tore it a few weeks ago now I gotta get this done, actually excited tbh

Amazing the advances in surgical procedures nowadays!

I fell really badly and my knee really hurt, when the doctor took up blood from my knee he said there is a very high chance I need to do acl surgery, but THANK GOD when the MRI scanned my leg it was only swollen and my acl was PERFECTLY FINE! THANK GOD :DDDDDD