all epiphyseal

ACL rupture pediatric

Issues

 

1.  More common recently

- more high level sport

 

2.  High risk of reinjuring knee from instability

- can suffer permanent severe chondral and meniscal damage

 

3.  Risk of physeal arrest high if bone block across physis

- risk is growth arrest with ACL reconstruction

 

Epidemiology

 

Hemarthrosis

- 60% children have ACL tear