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Ligament Injuries
Posterior Cruciate Ligament (PCL)
PCL tears aren't usually as dramatic or painful as ACL tears. Most often, you'll experience pain and swelling in the space behind your knee (popliteal fossa) and a feeling of instability, as if your knee might give way.
PCL Tear *
Your PCL ligament is located inside your knee and crosses the ACL as they stretch diagonally from the bottom of your thighbone to the top of your shinbone (tibia). The posterior cruciate ligament (PCL) connects to the back of your shinbone.
Posterior Cruciate Ligament Treatment
Treatment of your pain and swelling with crutches, ice, and elevation will provide you with relief and should be done immediately after the injury. Once these symptoms have settled and are controlled, physical rehabilitation exercises are beneficial to improve overall knee function and to maximize the other stabilizing structures of the knee. KNEEHAB® combined with physical / voluntary exercises will provide you with the optimum therapy to help regain your joint movement and leg strength.
How KNEEHAB® can Help
The quadriceps muscle is the most important stabilizer of the knee. After ligament damage / injury pain and swelling often cause disuse, which leads to muscle weakness. After an initial period of pain relief treatment and keeping the knee still, knee strengthening and stretching exercises should be done. An essential component of your rehabilitation after injury is strengthening of the quadriceps muscle and KNEEHAB® is ideal for this purpose.
KNEEHAB® is an innovative and clinically proven, garment-based Electrical Muscle Stimulation (EMS) device. It is designed specifically to treat quadriceps atrophy (thigh muscle wastage) that arises from being unable to exercise after your ligament injury. It re-educates the muscle by sending gentle electrical pulses through pads placed on the surface of the skin. This electrical stimulation applied to the motor nerve re-educates and strengthens the quadriceps muscle through cycles of contraction and relaxation.
It is recommended that KNEEHAB® be used in conjunction with voluntary exercise in order to optimize and control your rehabilitation.
