Torn PCL

**saltmonkey** · 10-29-2007, 06:55 PM

Hi all,
got another knee question....
just had ACL surgery, a week ago, all is good, walking with a breg brace, no pain at all from the following morning onward. Broke my fib and tib badly kitesurfing in april, been waiting for bone to heal to have the ACL surgery.
During the surgery they found that i had a tear in my PCL, apparently the ACL pinged the PCL when it snapped, so now, i have 6 months of rehab to go and have another surgery?? anyone have any experience with torn PCL and sports using brace? kiting? surfing? gutted if i have to miss another kite season becuase of this.

**Vinman** · 10-30-2007, 06:43 AM

Luckily for you a tear of the PCL is not as devastating to the knee as an ACL tear. I would say chances are, if after your ACL rehab, that your knee is stable and feeling good that they will not do surgery on your PCL. there are many people, including Pro level athletes with PCL deficient knees that perform high level cutting/twisting/turning sports.

**yooper** · 10-30-2007, 02:26 PM

There isn't really a good procedure that exists to do a PCL reconstruction. I agree, they probably won't do surgery.

**drmark** · 10-30-2007, 02:45 PM

Almost all the PCL injuries get better without surgery. The only thing the ACL and the PCL have incommon are the "CL."

**Theodore** · 10-30-2007, 10:48 PM

I tore a good portion of mine w/ my ACL, LCL, and biceps femoris. They reattached the muscle and LCL, reconstructed the ACL, but never said anything about the PCL...

I used a brace for a year or 18 months post op in all of my athletic adventures, and still use it skiing (Injury in Dec of '01). I don't wear it at all anymore, I run all over playing frisbee, throwing the baseball/ football, Ju Jitsu/ MMA... the knee is solid.