Anterior cruciate ligament injury symptoms?

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Anterior cruciate ligament injury is a disease that affects the joint health of patients. If patients are not treated properly, it will cause repeated injury, and it is easy to cause knee meniscus injury. Patients should find the symptoms of the disease in time before they can use regular treatment. What are the clinical symptoms of anterior cruciate ligament injury? Now let's talk about it.

Anterior cruciate ligament injury symptoms?

Strong trauma, some patients feel that there is a tearing sound in the knee joint, then the knee joint is weak, joint pain is severe, rapid swelling, intra-articular hematocele, subcutaneous ecchymosis around the joint, often indicating joint capsule injury, joint dysfunction. The patients with old injury may have quadriceps atrophy, giving way or wrong movement, and the motor ability is decreased. There were positive results in ADT, Lachman and axial shift tests.

Combined with X-ray and MRI examination, the general diagnosis is not difficult. Because of acute injury, pain, protective spasm of quadriceps femoris and negative anterior drawer test, a few patients need further examination under anesthesia. X-ray examination of knee joint can show tibial intercondylar eminence fracture. During internal and external stress examination, one side of joint space can be widened.

Arthroscopic examination of the knee showed hematocele, bleeding or small blood clot agglutination at the fracture end of ACL. The injury of the sub synovial ligament seems normal under arthroscopy, but its length and tension are abnormal, which may indicate the possibility of the injury.

matters needing attention

Usually should pay attention to the protection of joints, do not wear high-heeled shoes, you can wear some wrist band and other elastic bandage protection, in addition, pay attention not to make ankle ligament fatigue, especially when climbing stairs and mountains. If it's serious, you can go to the hospital for examination. If the ligament is seriously damaged, you can repair and strengthen the ligament. Now it can be done under arthroscopy, and the trauma is small. Can recommend a foot health exercise to you, with the toes on the ground, to exercise joint flexibility.