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|Rehabilitation |For more information | |

|A physical therapist (PT) will help bring back knee strength and | |[pic] |

|motion with or without surgery. A PT uses exercise, stretches to | | |

|improve movement and lower pain. |Contact a doctor or visit | |

|A PT will aim to: | | |

|- Lower pain and swelling | |

|- Bring back joint range of motion |s/ | |

|- Strengthen knee |For more information. |Anterior Cruciate Ligament Tear |

|- Strengthen lower leg | |By: Ellen Murphy |

|- Bring back muscle lengths | | |

|- Improve balance |An ACL tear can be fixed and in no time you will be back to normal activity! | |

|- Improve walking, running, squatting, hopping and landing | |

|- Lower the chance of re-injury. |[pic] |-pain-rooted-in-inflammation-of-bursae/ |

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|Treatment |Causes of ACL Tear | |

|A doctor could figure out the injury by a physical exam and a X-Ray or MRI.|- changing direction fast |What is Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL)? |

|Once the tear is determined, the patient will most likely need surgery. For|- bad landing after a jump |ACL is a flexible tissue that connects your shinbone to your thighbone. It |

|surgery, doctors rebuild the ACL. Post-surgery recovery time varies, but on|- stopping fast |keeps the bones in the leg from moving apart and allows for safe knee |

|average within six to nine months. Wearing an ACL brace will also help |- crashing into someone else |movement. |

|within recovery. An ACL brace will help take pressure off the ACL and keeps|Problems Related To the Tear | |

|the knee in place while moving. |- When a tear happens there may be a popping sound |ACL TEAR |

|[pic] |- Feeling of the knee giving out from under you |An ACL injury happens mostly in athletes and is the most common knee |

| |- Within hours extreme pain and swelling in the knee area will occur |injury. ACL injuries mostly results in a complete tear of the ACL. An ACL |

| |- Loss of full knee movement |tear is the most disabling knee injury. |

| |- Pain while walking | |

| |- Hard to straighten the knee | |

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