2 stage ACL revision notes.
I couldn’t find too much so I thought I’d add my own stuff incase it helps someone.
Initial surgery quad graft ACL and ALL recon Feb/2025 - cleared RTS in Feb 2026 and returned to sport played for about 10 weeks and retore ACL and both meniscus.
Had stage 1 revision yesterday which consisted of hardware removal, artificial bone graft to fill previous tunnels as surgeon said they were slightly off he also repaired, removed torn ACL and repaired my medial meniscus.
He said he is going to do the lateral meniscus in the next stage surgery as there isn’t any point doing the lateral meniscus while I don’t have an ACL which was interesting to me but he works on elite athletes so I trust his judgement with this.
This surgery is definitely more painful than ACL only for me so far just around the joint lines and the knee as a whole, I am WBAT which I found interested but locked 0-90 I was convinced I’d be NWB for 6 weeks but surgeon is happy for me to WBAT which I will follow his advice.
He advised artificial bone grafts are really good and it saves harvesting and having extra pain especially since it will mostly get drilled out again.
Have an appointment in 2 weeks to follow up.
This was done in Australia
Happy to answer any questions as I could have missed stuff, I’ve had a lot of pain relief!