Management of Cruciate Ligament Injuries
Kalemkeris, K.P.
Journal of the Medical Society of New Jersey 61: 96-100
1964
ISSN/ISBN: 0025-7524 PMID: 14131476 Document Number: 9308
In management of cruciate ligament injuries, it is of prime importance to determine the degree of loss of function of the involved ligament at the earliest possible moment. Treatment depends on the degree of the injury: a. For mild or moderate injury: conservative treatment. b. For severe injury with complete rupture of the anterior cruciate ligament: surgical procedure is indicated and early repair of the cruciate ligament is quite successful, if it is possible to approximate the ligament. c. For severe injury with complete rupture of the anterior cruciate ligament, when it is impossible to repair (due to fraying and shredding or avulsion of the ligament) : a surgical procedure is indicated to establish a new ligament, especially in the chronic and grossly disabled cases. It may not always be possible to obtain 100 per cent recovery and a completely normal functioning ligament of normal strength, with reconstruction of the anterior cruciate ligament. But this is due, in part, to the fact that it is virtually impossible for a substitution in the human body to achieve 100 per cent of the standards of its natural predecessor. Reconstruction of the anterior cruciate ligament has proved successful. A case is presented which was successfully treated by the Campbell Technic.
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