posterior cruciate ligament
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Nov 7, 2026
BenHOST
careful of
Antonia ChenGUEST
the PCL, all these certain things.
Antonia ChenGUEST
Important ligaments in
BenHOST
the knee, listener.
Mark PetropoulosGUEST
That makes sense.
Mark PetropoulosGUEST
ACL and PCL tears.
Mark PetropoulosGUEST
Another great question.
Mark PetropoulosGUEST
PCL first, because most PCL tears will not need surgery anyway.
Mark PetropoulosGUEST
And PCL can actually tighten up on its own.
Mark PetropoulosGUEST
And PCL is a little harder to inject using ultrasound, but it can be.
Mark PetropoulosGUEST
So I have done it.
Mark PetropoulosGUEST
And PCLs tend to do very, very well.
Trey BagbyHOST
Cause if you remember, uh, in college, he destroyed his knee.
Trey BagbyHOST
I mean, it was, I think it was ACL, MCL and PCL, uh, that he tore.
Trey BagbyHOST
And when you have those types of injuries, you are more prone to hamstring injuries.
Trey BagbyHOST
Hence why he had the hamstring injury issues that he had, um, his last season.
Kevin MurphyGUEST
If it were displaced and giving him sharp, catching pain, you'd go fix that right away.
Dan HickenHOST
Could it have been a PCL sprain at first? Is that kind of what we were thinking it was?
Kevin MurphyGUEST
You could, but again, the PCL is internal in the knee, and that takes a while to recover fully.
Kevin MurphyGUEST
Okay.
Kevin MurphyGUEST
And sometimes you don't get full stability back.
Dan HickenHOST
What is the...
Dan HickenHOST
Is the long-term prognosis okay, though?
Kevin MurphyGUEST
Um, the long-term prognosis, if it's just a PCL partial tear, you get a little bit of play in your knee.
Holt HagaGUEST
So my kneecap was up in my quad.
Holt HagaGUEST
I tore my ACL, my PCL.
Holt HagaGUEST
Or
David HanscomHOST
the PCL-2?
Holt HagaGUEST
I think it was either the PCL or MCL.
Holt HagaGUEST
It was so long ago.
Holt HagaGUEST
It was ACL plus one of the other two, plus microfracture, plus meniscus and all the other stuff.
Edward ParkHOST
So...
Edward ParkHOST
Yeah, you can inject the other areas, the quad tendon, the MCL, the PCL, sometimes the pest and serinus, which we didn't talk about, but it's a confluence of three muscle tendons on the side of the front of the knee.
Edward ParkHOST
Oftentimes these are involved too.
Edward ParkHOST
So usually what happens day three or four, they get a heaviness, a slight achiness, and that's a good sign.
Kevin SaboGUEST
So this is my knee, and all of a sudden, I'm cranking my knee to the inside.
Kevin SaboGUEST
I'm putting rotational force not only on my meniscus, but on my MCL, LCL, ACL, and PCL.
Kevin SaboGUEST
If the knee is not a rotational joint and I'm putting rotational force on those ligaments and those cartilage and the ligaments and things like that, there's a really good chance that there could be some sort of damage that's occurring over the amount of time.
Kevin SaboGUEST
So let's say you do that 60 times a game, 65 times a game, plus you have All the times that you're doing in practice, plus all the times that you're getting in all of your own work, eventually that stuff's going to start to weaken and that soft tissue is going to start to become damaged.
David BazzelHOST
do replacements.
Jimmy TuckerGUEST
When somebody tears up their knee and they have multiple problems, not just the ACL, but the ACL and the PCL, those are always hard.
Jimmy TuckerGUEST
And people that do a lot of damage to their meniscus, which is where...
David BazzelHOST
that that's why i've had my knee replaced because i just keep taking the cartilage out of it you yeah and also um yeah the uh roger and them were sort of making fun of me because i'm like i've done so many surgeries bruce i'm just i just call out can i i need to get i need to get fit in the next couple weeks give me the doctor you see my mri let's go do it there's no talking i know it's got to be replaced right But it is.
Anders StalmanGUEST
It's a very thick and strong graft.
Anders StalmanGUEST
get the size you want and you can have a bone block if you like that you can have a really long graft if you need that and for the PCL it's perfect and then there's been an increasing interest to use it also for the ACL internationally and it's been more and more discussed in some countries it has increased a lot and especially in athletes and we have been in that trend as well.
Anders StalmanGUEST
and done more and more quads.
Anders StalmanGUEST
But when we have looked at it, that tendon has some drawbacks, really.
Anders StalmanGUEST
So it's not that many, but about 10%.
Anders StalmanGUEST
And that are predominantly younger patients with high demands.
Chris HughenHOST
And is the rationale for the surgeons that use the quad tendon in specific groups, like you said earlier for the PCL, similar to the ACL, it's just a thicker graft and the thicker graft theoretically is more robust? Or what is the consideration for surgeons regarding using that versus the patellar tendon or the hamstring?
Anders StalmanGUEST
I think what people were looking for when the quad tendons increased was a graft that had less risk of persistent laxity in the knee and less risk of re-injury and need for revision surgery.
Jess NinaberGUEST
And I twisted my knee and dislocated my patella.
Jess NinaberGUEST
I tore my MCL, my PCL, my patella ligament.
Jess NinaberGUEST
And I was just in so much pain.
Jess NinaberGUEST
And it took an hour before any medical team could get to me and then reset my knee.
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