Surgery for a Sports Knee Injury: Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction

Emory Sports Medicine is leading the way in advancing the latest techniques for treating injuries sustained while playing sports. Knee injury surgery can repair all types of ACL (Anterior Cruciate Ligament) injuries. as well as damage to knee cartilage and surrounding tissue. For a sports knee injury requiring total reconstruction, Emory offers the following procedures

• Hamstring Reconstruction
• Patellar Tendon Reconstruction
• Allograft Reconstruction
• Double-Bundle Reconstruction

Posterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction

The PCL (Posterior Cruciate Ligament) is vital for the stability of the knee joint. If you’ve experienced a sports knee injury causing instability of the joint, consider the following surgeries.

• Single-Bundle Reconstruction
• Double-Bundle Reconstruction

Meniscal Repair

Meniscal repair fixes torn cartilage within the knee joint. Because no blood flows to the meniscus, the healing process is much slower. If you’ve sustained a crucial impairment of your cartilage while playing sports, our physicians can perform the following procedures.

• Arthroscopic Meniscal Repair
• Meniscetomy
• Meniscal Transplant

Cartilage Repair

If you’ve sustained damage to the cartilage surrounding the knee joint, our physicians perform a variety of procedures to help heal torn knee cartilage and fractures.

• Patella Dislocation
• Patella Tendon Repair
• Quadricep Tendon Repair
• Patellar Fracture
• High Tibial Osteotomy
• Uni-Compartment Arthroplasty Micro Fracture
• Carticel Transplant
• OBI Implant
• Oats Procedure
• Osteochondral Allografts

Learn more about ACL damage sustained in sports and knee injury information.