There seems to be a lot of ACL repair talk out here, so I figured let's profile ourselves. Who here has seen the ACL knife?
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There seems to be a lot of ACL repair talk out here, so I figured let's profile ourselves. Who here has seen the ACL knife?
Left ACL x 2 + several meniscus tears repairs/excised + current lateral meniscus tear for the past 2 years that has yet to be fixed. Thinking about getting it fixed soon though. Just have to find time in between ski season and triathlon season.
Rehabed many many others.
Left & right, need to get right done again.
Both skiing. Right waaaay back 1988. Left followed 7 yrs later. In between NSAIDS came to market and the 3 day hospital stay became an out patient procedure.
Knees feel great.
However, Right achilles tendonitis, left ITB stiffness and now possible left rotator cuff are really messing up my workout routines.
Blew my right ACL in '04 playing indoor soccer. Also had a slight medial meniscus tear in the same knee which the doc didn't even bother fixing because it was so small....might have to get it snipped/fixed at some point in the future though.
Have had an MCL tear in my left knee as well, but that healed with time & rest.
tore my acl last winter. my 35th year skiing, 33 season passes. grew up racing back east, mostly speed events. then ski bummed for about 12 years in VT, UT, MT, WY, then back to MT. My ACL was my first season ending injury, and it happened at a time when i had a desk job and health insurance.
while it sucked, as things go it could not have been much better.
Right knee
Ol' leftie bit the big one this april. That sucked. Though, the knee gets better as the days get shorter. :cool:
Left knee acl, Mt Baldy April 2006. Buried a tip in hollow slushy snow,fell awkward rolled over backwards toe did not release....POP!
yup, wish it was just the acl
Both, and a scope on L knee to snip damaged meniscus and remove a bone spur that was cutting my new ACL. L needs another scope maybe next summer, there's a floater in there. Doesn't bug me too much though, I can manipulate it out of the joint when it finds it's way in there.
Airtime and non-relaeasable bindings were the mechanism for both.
what about another option for "i've had surgery on my knee(s) but not the ACL"?
Tore mine on March 6 at Snowshoe, WV. Had the surgery May 5th. I hope to be released by the doctor at the end of this month.
Left ACL, LCL, PCL, and biceps femoris playing football. Wouldn't be suprised if my right ACL has some damage to it too...
Left, road bike fall. Knee hyperextended in the tumbling and the ACL ripped the bone apart (tib? fib? it was a while ago). ACL stayed intact, happily enough, but there's still a big ole scar.
I'm even at 2 surgeries on each. ACL and later a partial menisectomy on the left, and ACL and later a meniscus repair on the right.
Lost right ACL in May of '03 due to stupidity. I arrived at the hill and realized I'd brought the wrong skis for the new longer boots I had just bought. I forced them into the shorter binding setting anyway to avoid driving all the way home to get the right ones.
Unfortunately, the longer boot, combined with an already high DIN, made them pretty unreleasable.
Very preventable loss of my ACL. I chose the hamstring replacement.
Completely tore my right ACL and partial tore my miniscus on a flat landing. I haven't had surgery on either, the only problems i have now are slight tweaks of my miniscus.
Start your own thread?Quote:
Originally Posted by upallnight
right acl jan 06...7springs, pa. :nonono2:
i'm jonesing to ski sooooo bad! :tdo13:
Left ACL Dec '04, landing small cliff under bottom of Headwall at Squaw, into crunchy snow......allograft (cadaver) surgery April 1, 2005.
1 acl reconstruction
2 meniscus repairs, one each
it's just that the first option in his poll is "my knees are pure", while the rest of the options are for ACL injuries.Quote:
Originally Posted by stump832
there should be another option for "injured knee, other than ACL" so it's an exhuastive list... or just change the first option to "never had an ACL injury".
either way...
:D
Tore the ACL and Meniscus on the left one in '96 at Mammoth, on Roger's Ridge. Had the reconstructive surgery. Got back on the slopes Jan of '97. Blew the right one at Alyeska in Feb of '97. No surgery but lots of rehab. Wear a brace on both and have been ripping it up since. Don't think much of it but glad to take the braces off at the end of the day.
Left Knee- ACL & PCL due to highspeed motocross get-off 1992. Thank god I was relatively young when that happened.
Right Knee- is a timebomb waiting...
right in '89 at Mt. Snow. Left in 94 or so at bromley. now i have a frayed/torn meniscus in the left knee but my dr. is a quack and didnt want to do surgery. I gotta get a second opinion, its clicking and catching like crazy. anyone have just a meniscus worked on? ie rehab time.
acl, mcl. lcl. meniscus - 4/1/05 @ mammoth.
allograft 5/29/05 - about 90% back.
Left Knee - getting surgery on monday. Many thanks to the people posting about hamstring v. PT surgery. I'm going with the hammy, and hope to be back by april?
oct '99-took a helmet to my right knee, ACL, MCL and LCL, broke my femor(sp) shattered my knee cap and the pattella tendon tore, medial and lateral meniscus tears.
spring of '02-fat guy fell on me, ACL and meniscus again the right knee
july of '03- twisted wrong playing softball, ACL meniscus for the third time on the right knee
so i've had graphs from my hammy, my patella tendon and some dead guy.....
-aaron
left ACL plus minescus, messed it up laying rugby last march
I tore my left acl in september of 1981 playing flag football--actually warming up before the first game. I lived in Steamboat at the time and my doc told me that the surgery would be very invasive and risky. He suggested I try PT first and see how well I could do without. He also advised me to give up cutting sports like football, basketball, and soccer. Hoops was the hardest to let go of, but eventually I realized I just can't protect myself in those kinds of sports.
Yet I could protect myself on skis and never ever tweaked it on the slopes. I skied over 100 days that winter and averaged that many days over the next 14 seasons until I married and got a real job. Never used a brace, always jumped, teled, ragdolled over cliffs and in many ways nearly got myself killed, breaking 24 bones in between the acl tear and 2004 but never hurt the knee skiing. Then in February 04, 23 years after I tore the acl, I was out trail-running and the meniscus just shredded itself. I dragged the leg home and was done skiing for that season. But I had time to do pre-surgery PT and that got me good and strong before the surgery. Went in on April 29 for acl, 70% menisectomy, lots of scrapage and suckage of shredded cartilege, and microfracture. The pictures of the inside of my knee looked like fringe.
When my wife got me home from the hospital, I was high on morphine, anesthetic, and had a nerve block in my thigh. I was euphoric and wouldn't go to bed. What fucking JONG I was! The first two weeks were brutal with compartment syndrome setting in and no weight bearing allowed. But at 4 weeks I was walking limp free. I did 2-3 days a week PT and went to the gym every day to regain strength and ROM. My PT told me she was working with a CU football player who could stand on the bongo board and pick up cones from the floor at 12 weeks. I couldn't even balance on the leg at that time. But by 10 weeks I could do the same thing as that football player. I also got all my muscle mass and better ROM back by 12 weeks. At 4 months my PT said if I told her I wanted to ski she would laugh in my face. Two weeks later my doc cleared me to ski, I skied on sand dunes, and never looked back.
My story may not be the norm, but I can say if you have knee surgery, get motivated and competitive about your rehab. Find a good PT and do everything he or she says. Be sure your doc knows how motivated you are and don't waste time getting discouraged.