A medial collateral ligament (MCL) tear affects the inside of the knee. The tough MCL ligament fibers that connect the end of the femur (thigh bone) and the top of the tibia (shin bone) can tear, ...

“He kind of was just like: `The nerve surgery, the TJ, they were kind of like just failed from the jump. You had a degenerative ligament, just something that kind of happened throughout the process, ...