Can you walk with a torn ACL? Will it heal without surgery? - Dr. P C Jagadeesh|Doctors' Circle

Dr P C Jagadeesh | Appointment booking No 9962314018 |Consultant Orthopedic Surgeon
Specialised in Joint replacement, Arthroscopy & Sports Medicine | Joss Center, Bengaluru
The problem is when people come normally they come are a fall and during playing. Not only that there are so many people who are travelling in two wheelers and when a dog comes in between and they fall and they can stand the ligament injury. So this ligament injury when it comes, a huge swelling will come in the knee joint. The selling will rest in a blood clot. So the blood lot will be very painful and the condition which they will develop is they will not be able to bed and suddenly they feel like the knee is giving way or the knee slips put. So this is the period where they should take are of themselves very carefully, not to put complete weight over the knee and walk because of the knee starts slips, they are going to get damage of the other structures of the knee joint, which is not at all good for them. If this is the acute stage or the recent injury. Some patients they do come and they have an injury, for where the ligament has stopped and they will be adopted by doing some exercises and not able to walk but at the cost of an injury to the knee joint which can damage the other structures if it happens again.