I went MRI @ Forest medical center, kepong early this month and the report came out and stated that my ACL completely torn.
then i went and have a consultation with a orthopedic dr somewhere near there and he said that surgery is the best to recover.
anyone had the experience undergo the ACL reconstruction surgery? any good Dr near PJ area? my company took AIA and their panel around PJ is Tropicana medical center & KPJ Damansara

its complete tear bro

yes. that is the other half of the journey. the 1st half is a good dr.

your recovery is quite good. where did u do physio?

yeah. i read dr Gan kinda popular. How about the use of Allograft for your case?

Done my ACL (Hamstring Graft)+Meniscus tear recently. and this is my story.

Day 1 - Friday, OP around 3 p.m and finish around 6 . nothing much after the OP. Just rest for the night with GameReady ice compressing machine the whole night. Anyway, no major pain felt and its just swell a bit. from 1 to 10,
pain are just 3 max. Anyway, they gave u shots of morphine just in case the pain is unbearable.
Day 2 - Saturday, Nurse removed the blood drain tube (tube from under the pattela) Physician walk in on the afternoon, teach me how to use the crutches with full weight, and how to strengthen my quad muscle.Just rest for the
night with GameReady ice compressing machine the whole night.
Day 3 - Sunday, walk around the ward slowly, did the quad muscle sets 3 times and a lot of bending (slowly). GameReady ice compressing machine was use all the time after the exercise and the whole night.
Day 4 - Monday, went to physio department, my Range of Motion (ROM) now is 80°. Continued with the quad muscle training.
Day 6 - Wednesday, physio still the same, ROM now around 110°, i forced my self when i was in my room . and started playing with the stair @ the hospital. slowly but surely.
Day 7 - Dischared!!! Finally... go home and continue with the physio.

Week 2 - Bending now around 120°, physio done with weight bearing, slowly regain my confidence. a bit limping tho and stitches removed. (doctor suggested not to go more than 90° because related to meniscus)

Week 4 - Bending now around 130° (naturally and did not force anything) , still physio with weight bearing. no limping and can fast walk. hamstring felt discomfort when bend around 130° though.

Week 6 - Bending almost complete, physio with weight bearing and already fast walk and cycle during physio rehab in hospital. still felt some discomfort around hamstring area.


Anyway, recovery time are varies to the persons. One of the main reasons for the recovery to take such times are because of fear. So be positive and motivate yourself to control it.

1. very good. read around. be prepared. but i recommend dr.Asri of prince court. it's not just the specialist. specialist is half. another half would be the physio and your mental strength.

2. my price all in was 22k. my housemate did it at ampang puteri was 30k. so i think the price would be varies, depending on the case.

3. u need to see the doctor and discuss this.

4. before i went to prince court (i just blitz in prince court, same day see doctor), i did tried hospital selayang. 1st day set date with front desk. a month later can see the doctor. a month later go mri. than 2 weeks after maybe surgery. but the price that was quoted for me was 14k.

This post has been edited by sheiberlee: Jun 4 2013, 07:08 AM

wassup mang?

how u doing?

good². 90% on day 9 is good. and summore u walk ady.

no need to strain to much. just do the physio as regular as u can. and u should be ok.

the ligament aint that easy to longgar la bro. but still, dont be over confident la haa

i had meniscus as well and for my case, dr said dont go over 90 first 4 weeks.

so chill out

one of my friend did ACL recon at a small hospital at Jalan Ipoh.
from 2 hours become 5 hours.
dont know what happened but during the op, the dr can call & even refer to other dr from HKL (my friend went to HKL after that to check and the dr here remember his case). shit got worst after the OP and he kept getting fever for 3 months.

he then sued this hospital. won. outside court settle. and went to prince court same dr with me to redo his op (he was the one proposed dr.asri to me anyway).

so make sure the hospital/dr you gonna do have a good repo.

oi what happened laaa???

yeah. but damage is done. probably need second scope.

good for you.
slowly walk and gain confidence back.
do your physio regularly

i suffered from ACL tear.
went for reconstruction.
now can go back to normal life & play sports.

post operation rehab is important up to 6 month after.
i started sports again 1 year after surgery.

your repair means reconstruction issit? i recommend my surgeon last time

if anybody want to know,

my doctor was Datuk Dr. Mohd. Asri B Abd. Ghapar from Prince court (6 days warded private room, total all in RM23k)
if you want to do @ government, last time i checked at Hosp Selayang is RM14k,

HKL is known to be a pioneer for this treatment, hence more specialist.

if you want private treatment but cheaper price, go to private wing of general hospital, UMSC, UKMSC.
go make appointment first thru the general emergency room, let general dr check, make appointment with specialist, let specialist check. tell him want to do under insurance and under private wing. (will take around 4 months)

hope this help.

This post has been edited by sheiberlee: Jul 10 2016, 10:45 PM

your husband confirmed ACL tear or just muscle sprain?
mind sharing how it work?

Should be ok jugak bro

All the best

seems that there's another type of treatment.

instead of normal scope and replace the ACL, since there are no blood cell around the ACL, it can never be recover unlike muscle tear.

new procedure will blanket the torn ACL with blood cell that will later heal it naturally. dont know if the procedure already here or not,