Text/Yangcheng Evening News All-Media Reporter Zhang Hua Correspondent Zhang Cancheng
Picture/Video Lingnan Famous Doctor Studio
For those who love to play football or basketball, anterior cruciate ligament is not unfamiliar, because they will see it from time to time around their golf friends. A rupture of the anterior cruciate ligament occurs. Although this special ligament is ruptured, daily walking, running, etc. will generally not be affected, but it will cause joint instability. If not handled properly, continued exercise may cause meniscus injury , cartilage damage and other series of knee joint injuries , aggravating the injury.
Li Jieruo, director of the Sports Medicine Center of the First Affiliated Hospital of Jinan University, told reporters that the anterior cruciate ligament (also known as the anterior cruciate ligament) is a smooth tissue bag about 3cm long and 8 to 10mm wide, with synovium on the surface. Wounded fibrous tissue. This ligament is very important for maintaining the stability of the knee joint. It has multiple functions of limiting the anterior translation, internal rotation, internal and external varus and hyperextension of the tibia. It can be used during complex and high-speed movements such as knee flexion and half squats, fast running and jumping, sudden turns and stops, etc. Once injured, it will be difficult to complete the above actions, seriously affecting the movement function of the knee joint.
It is precisely because of the special function of this ligament that it is easy to break this ligament during some strenuous or confrontational sports, such as playing basketball, football, sudden turns and stops, jumping, etc. According to statistics, the main cause of anterior cruciate ligament injury is sports injury, accounting for more than 70%.
When the anterior cruciate ligament is acutely injured, there may be a "popping" tearing sound, followed by acute symptoms of anterior cruciate ligament injury, such as knee joint pain , intra-articular bleeding, knee joint limited extension. wait. About 1-2 weeks after the injury, you will feel a shaking sensation in the knee joint when you resume walking (that is, what the patient calls a sense of disconnection between the bones). Director Li Jiuruo of
believes, “After the anterior cruciate ligament is broken, the joint is in an unstable state, and if this ligament is broken, it cannot heal itself, and it cannot be sutured like a skin tear. Because the repaired Scar tissue does not have enough tension to maintain joint stability," said Director Li Jiuruo.
"Currently, the most mainstream method for treating anterior cruciate ligament rupture is to reconstruct an anterior cruciate ligament so that it can perform its proper function." Director Li Jieruo said, "You can walk on the ground the next day after the operation, and after scientific After rehabilitation and exercise, most patients can return to the court after one year.” (For more news, please pay attention to Yangcheng Pai pai.ycwb.com)
source | Editor-in-chief of Yangcheng Evening News·Yangcheng Pai
| Chen Liang
Proofreading | Li Hongyu
