The injury is expected to take three to four weeks to heal. The MCL helps control the knee’s movement from side to side and is the most frequently injured knee ligament, according to the report.
With the Grade II tear, about 50-60 percent of the tissue is torn and all fibers are torn, Charles Bush-Joseph, MD, an orthopedic surgeon at Midwest Orthopaedics at Rush in Chicago, told the Tribune.
Read the Chicago Tribune article on Jay Cutler.
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