ACL History

[dogwonder]

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?

[Vinman]

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.

[ctarmchair]

Left & right, need to get right done again.

[Mofro261]

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.

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

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.

[fez]

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.

[jenscats5]

Right knee

[stump832]

Ol' leftie bit the big one this april. That sucked. Though, the knee gets better as the days get shorter.

[flatlander420]

Left knee acl, Mt Baldy April 2006. Buried a tip in hollow slushy snow,fell awkward rolled over backwards toe did not release....POP!

[caddah]

yup, wish it was just the acl

[beaterdit]

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.

[upallnight]

what about another option for "i've had surgery on my knee(s) but not the ACL"?

[musicman]

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.

[Theodore]

Left ACL, LCL, PCL, and biceps femoris playing football. Wouldn't be suprised if my right ACL has some damage to it too...

[maniloff]

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.

[altagirl]

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.

[Endlessseason]

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.

[skifree]

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.

[stump832]

what about another option for "i've had surgery on my knee(s) but not the ACL"?

Start your own thread?

[AfroMullet]

right acl jan 06...7springs, pa.

i'm jonesing to ski sooooo bad!

[Huckwheat]

Left ACL Dec '04, landing small cliff under bottom of Headwall at Squaw, into crunchy snow......allograft (cadaver) surgery April 1, 2005.

[kidwoo]

1 acl reconstruction

2 meniscus repairs, one each

[upallnight]

Start your own thread?

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.

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...

[lcoyote]

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.

[Stone-Free]

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...