In June 2010 I had an MRI done. When the results came back in August (because doctors need holidays too...) I was told the ACL was intact and there was a tear in the medial meniscus. A simple keyhole surgery would fix the problem and I'd be back in basketball in 4-6 weeks. Happy days! So in September I went in for what was my third knee surgery. When I woke up "Dr" Ken told me that unfortunately the ACL was completely ruptured and meniscus was fine. And he couldn't do anything about the ACL obviously in a keyhole surgery. So a completely unnecessary procedure. But what can you do? MRIs don't always show things explicitly. However (and there's always a 'however') earlier this year, months after, I got to see the MRI myself. And I'm no doctor, but I think a monkey could see that the ACL clearly isn't there. Shreds of it can be seen, but where they imagined the "intact ligament" to be, I have no idea.
The left one is a normal, unruptured ACL. The right one is mine in June.
Also note that there are
two holes in the tibia (thigh bone) but that's another tragic story within the story.
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What is the dark area beneath the purple circle in the image of your knee? Is that where the ACL has detached?
ReplyDeleteNope, that's the femoral tunnel where they attached the new ACL in 2005 in the first reconstructive surgery. This tunnel is wider than normal and almost had me do 2 surgeries now instead of one. Dr Ken FTW!
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