ACL rupture

A twist on a planted foot tears the anterior cruciate ligament, often with the medial collateral ligament and medial meniscus. Without it the knee can give way when pivoting.

ICD-10 S83.7On the joints3 stages

Installation

bunx shadcn@4.22.1 add @organui/acl-rupture

This adds acl-rupture.tsx, the disease's data and component, to your components directory. It is built on the disease viewer and reuses the models of the joints, which install with it.

View registry item JSON

Usage

import { AclRupture } from "@/components/acl-rupture"

export function AclRuptureDemo() {
  return <AclRupture />
}

Every structure is a finding: affected structures are amber and spared ones muted. Select one, in 3D or in the panel, to read what the disease does there.

Set stage or defaultStage to one of these. Each stage changes which structures are affected and the investigations to expect; the timeline under the model shows them in order, with the events along the way.

Acute "acute" · Weeks 0–6
Pain, a swollen knee within hours and inability to carry on playing. Rest, ice, a brace and physiotherapy start at once; MRI confirms what is torn.
- Lachman test: The tibia slides forward on the femur with a soft end point; the most sensitive test for a torn ACL.
- MRI: Confirms the ACL tear and shows the collateral ligament, meniscus and bone bruising that come with it.
Affects 5 structures of the knees.
Reconstructed "reconstructed" · Months 2–12
People who want to return to pivoting sport, or whose knee keeps giving way, have the ligament reconstructed once the knee settles. Return to sport takes at least nine months after surgery.
- Reconstruction: Once the swelling settles and the knee moves fully, a tendon graft replaces the ligament, and a torn meniscus is repaired at the same operation.
- Return to sport (9 months after surgery): After rehabilitation and tests of strength and hopping against the other leg; returning earlier raises the risk of tearing it again.
Affects 2 structures of the knees.
Or Without reconstruction "deficient" · Years
Many knees do well with rehabilitation alone. In some the knee keeps giving way when pivoting. Each episode can tear the menisci and wear the cartilage, raising the risk of osteoarthritis.
- Rehabilitation: Structured strength and balance training, with or without giving up pivoting sport. If the knee still gives way, a delayed reconstruction is offered.
Affects 4 structures of the knees.

Without Panel

Hide the panel to place the model in your own layout, and choose the scale and stage with props.

Controlled

Drive the stage, scale and selection from your own state, such as a patient's timeline.

API Reference

Import AclRuptureProps from the same file as AclRupture.

AclRupture props
Prop	Type	Default	Description
`scale`	`"joints"`	—	Control the scale shown.
`defaultScale`	`"joints"`	"joints"	Choose the scale shown first.
`onScaleChange`	`(scale: string) => void`	—	Receive the scale a reader chooses.
`stage`	`"acute" \| "reconstructed" \| "deficient"`	—	Control the stage shown.
`defaultStage`	`"acute" \| "reconstructed" \| "deficient"`	"acute"	Choose the stage shown first.
`onStageChange`	`(stage: string) => void`	—	Receive the stage a reader chooses.
`selectedId`	`string \| null`	null	Control the selected structure ID.
`onSelectionChange`	`(id: string \| null) => void`	—	Receive selections from the model and the panel.
`panel`	`boolean`	true	Show the scales, findings and investigations beside the model.
`timeline`	`boolean`	true	Show the course under the model, with its events and a play button. A disease with one stage has none.
`className`	`string`	—	Set the layout of the model and the panel.

Other props, such as visibility, controls, defaultView and ref, go to the organ viewer.

Models and licences

The component code is MIT. Each model keeps its own licence, and the viewer shows its credit; see Licences before hiding it.

Knees: Z-Anatomy, based in part on BodyParts3D, © The Database Center for Life Science, licensed under CC Attribution-Share Alike 4.0, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Educational, not for diagnosis or clinical decisions. The findings summarise typical disease; individual patients differ.