After care for MCL surgery must be customized. A number of factors must be considered, such as the quality of the repair or reconstruction, the presence and type of augmentation, type of ...

Physical therapy may be recommended as part of your recovery. Rarely, surgery is required to repair the MCL tear but usually that happens when other knee structures, like the ACL, also are damaged.

The medial collateral ligament (MCL) provides the principal stability to valgus stresses. Deformity of the knee causes the soft-tissue imbalances that require correction during total knee ...