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Message: [QUOTE="Sargassoc, post: 2685523, member: 826"] I have had two ligament reconstruction surgeries, one on each ankle (though mine were not lateral ligaments). Ligaments can be stretched and stapled/attached to the bone to stabilize the ankle or they can use an existing (or cadaver) tendon. My surgeries, using a Watson-Jones technique, each required about a seven inch incision, ending in a "J" under the ankle bone-- where the doctor bisected the tendon on the calf and used that in place of the ligament, attaching it through a drilled hole in my ankle. (P.S. I have subsequently had tendinitis in the "new" tendon, which hurts in a place where tendons generally are not. Weird.) If Lou's surgery was to repair a [I]lateral[/I] ligament, it might have used what's called a Brostrom procedure, which will mean her incision was something like three inches. [/QUOTE]