Here's how it happened. As a Ranger at Mt. Wachusett, I go out on the hill two times a week at night to help the Ski Patrol with injured skiers and snowboarders, and to help maintain a certain amount of sanity among the nutjobs flying around like unguided missles. January 18th, I arrived and immediately went up the lift to help out at an accident scene on a trail called Smith Walton, or trail 5 as we refer to it on the radio. Just after going over the first pitch, I washed out on an ice patch, and in trying to recover my balance (instead of just taking the fall, as I should have) I hyperextended my left knee. I felt a small 'twang' in the knee, not exactly a pop. There was no twisting, wrenching, and nothing especially violent about the fall. I was not going very fast, either.
When I got up, I knew I'd done something, but it didn't hurt a lot, and I was able to keep going. I remember saying to myself, 'jeez I hope I didn't do what I think I just did.' From the accident scene, I skied down, following the Ski Patrol sled, taking the injured skier's own skis on my shoulder and skiing more or less normally, though a little unsteadily. Turning to the right was a little exciting. Later on, during a single run, I fell twice, which I almost never do, and realized something was up.
Taking a break for coffee, I noticed walking around in my ski boots that there was some definite pain on the outside of my knee, so I decided to quit for the night and put some ice on it. I'd read about ACL injuries, and while I suspected that could have happened, I wasn't convinced. I assumed it took a lot more violence to tear an ACL. The fall I'd had was almost incidental. I'd never hurt myself skiing and was having a hard time accepting the idea that I'd done something serious.
First doctor's visit
But I was concerned enough, never having injured my knees, to get it looked at right away. I was able to get an appointment with my family practice physician the next day, who gave my leg some tugs, noted that there wasn't a lot, if any, discernable swelling, and sent me on my way with the advice to ice it, stay off skis for 4 weeks, and not to worry. We figured it was a sprain.
The specialist
I was already scheduled to see an orthopod early in February to look at my shoulder, so I figured I'd have him take a quick look at the knee while he was at it. During the appointment, we spent 20 minutes talking about the shoulder, which I'd had some trouble with over the last tennis season. In October I'd elected to quit playing until I figured out how to alleviate the pain I was having. I had assumed that the problem was a small rotator cuff tear and that we would be talking about when to schedule arthroscopic surgery. As it happened, he didn't think it was a tear -- the MRI was inconclusive -- so instead, he offered to give me a cortizone shot and put me on a physical therapy regimen. Then we had a look at the knee.
Now, the knee had not really been bothering me at all. It never swelled up much. I could walk a straight line and do stairs without any discomfort at all. I figured a little rest and I'd be back in action. The one thing that nagged at me was that it felt unstable, like I could really do some damage if I stepped off a curb wrong.
He got me on the table, did a few manipulations of my good leg, and then moved over to my left leg. After about two seconds of examination, he told me I had a definite tear in my ACL. This was quite a shock to me at the time. He said he didn't need an MRI to confirm it, but that he'd order one anyway to determine if there was any other damage to the knee, which is pretty typical of an ACL tear, apparently.
The Lachman and drawer tests he did were dramatic. On my good leg, the calf moved forward slightly and stopped with almost a 'thunk.' On the bad leg, the calf moved forward twice as far, and stopped with a certain mushiness. So in a moment, my ski season and my 2007 tennis season disappeared before my very eyes. As I've been saying to friends, "I went in with a shoulder and came out with a knee."
49 year old weekend athlete tears ACL skiing, has it surgically repaired. Surgery, rehab, results.
39 comments:
Hi I tore my ACL in both of my knees but for each surgery I had a different surgeon. For my first one he told me I would be able to start jumping at 6 months and the surgeon for my second tear told me at 8 months. I was wondering when you started jumping after your operation because I think 8 months is a little to long and I am already at 6 months right now.
At about 13 weeks, my PT had me start doing some light jumping exercises, but being very careful about form (butt back, keeping knee above foot). From that point, I was soon also doing an exercise where I hopped over a set of about 8 short hurdles (about 6 inches high). On the 13 week entry in my blog, I describe the ladder drills I started doing. Good luck with your knees.
I had reconstructive acl surgery Aug 7. It is nearly a week now and the pain i feel is getting worse. I am taking pain killers, and icing most of the day and night. How long into recovery did the pain start to subside. I haven't started physical therapy and i am guessing that the pain might even be worse. I am getting restless as the day goes on, but basically stay in bed, getting out of bed for 1-2 hours each day. I find that resting, and not moving my leg as much is least painful. I want to add that they removed a tendon from my hamstring and put that in my knee. Did anyone have that done? A lot of my pain is coming form the removal of the tendon, as well as the surgery.
I know this is a long recovery and chose to go through with the surgery because i am 27 years old and have been active in soccer and skiing for over 20 years. I know i want to participate in these sports one day again and the only way that was possible was if i got the surgery. Any advice????
V: Hope you're feeling more comfortable. And apologies for the response lag, I've been on vacation.
Read around in my posts, and you'll see that I also had the hamstring autograft, and still have a bit more weakness on that side by comparison. The site of the graft bothered me at first for a while too, and during the first four weeks or so, I kept tearing scar tissue inadvertently, which hurt like hell. Look ahead in the blog, and you'll see a section on how one PT I worked with helped me correct that in *one day.*
As for your future recovery, I can only say that sticking with the rehab worked for me. It's the one thing you can control and it has everything to do with your ultimate recovery and long term mobility. So stay focused, and if you're having any trouble, get help from someone: a workout buddy, a PT, anyone who can help keep you motivated.
Your knee is going to be fine. It's been over 2 years since my procedure, and when I'm playing tennis or skiing, I have zero awareness of my "involved" knee, like the injury never happened. I don't need a brace either. Just need to stay strong and flexible: strengthening, running, stretching, etc.
Interesting stories. I have a partial ACL tear with a positive pivot shift and a little front to back laxity. I'm a 24 year old female. It has been nearly a half year since the injury. I can bicycle without much pain now, however jogging still causes pain... especially at the lateral aspect of my knee and a certain spot which might be called the femoral condryle at the outside back of the knee. MRI from a few months ago showed no meniscus damage or other significant trauma besides to the ACL and some significant bone bruising.
The pain during jogging is probably caused by the pressure on the bone bruises; the OS doesn't think it is a meniscus pain.
I am still positive for pivot shifting, but my leg feels really strong and pretty good with all the rehab. The pain is subsiding everywhere but the femoral condryle area, so I'm not sure if jogging is worth it. The O-surgeons I have consulted say that surgery is a reasonable option because I have a positive pivot shift, but they say that I should give it some time to see if the instability in my everyday life is that bad...
How am I supposed to know if it is that bad? When I keep up on my exercises (come on, you know you skip them sometimes), then I think that my knee is pretty strong, but maybe that is psychological. I am just afraid that I am going to think my knee is good some day and then play soccer or something and ruin my meniscus or articular cartilage. They suggested a petellar-tendon graft if I opt for surgery, since I am young and have a pivot shift even with such little front-to back laxity... they think I should get one that will not be as likely to stretch over time.
Now I am wondering, if I keep with my partial tear, will I have to do these exercises forever to try to keep it stable? People in my family get pretty old, and I don't want to do these exercises for another 65 years. Also, will I ever be able to wear shoes that don't have arch support and not bother my knee? My knee tends to twist when I rest on that leg in such as way that more pressure goes on the inside of my foot and crushes the arch down. I'm also not fat now or planning on it, but I'm only 24 and women in my family are not stick figures by any means. There's no arthritis in my family history and I'm told that having a pivot shift at such a young age does have the potential to lead to OA, especially if I end up injuring my meniscus.
So, anybody out there with reasons to believe that I should or shouldn't have knee surgery? I want to do the best thing to have a healthy knee for years to come. I really enjoy hiking up and down mountains and bicycling... and my job requires the hiking. I have a limp that is only noticeable to me and which is worse with hiking and carrying weight...maybe that will subside with the bone bruises though? I also like swimming, but feel a noticeable instability in my knee with the breast stroke, which is all I really do.
Okay, enough of a post. Any comments?
Hi,
I had a ACL surgery for my left knee in august 2006 (damage done in soccer) and it was successful. I got back to runnning a lot a year ago. The strange thing is now my right knee is hurting a lot but i don't know why i didn't injure it anywhere. I have been told that it might be caused by the asymmetric loading on my right knee because this is how the body acts to protect the left knee, but the body does so subconsioucly. Is this possible? If yes, how to fix the problem? any type of exercises to do. Please help me it's so furstrating, I worked so hard to recover and now my right is the problem.wHat can be done to fix the problem ??????
The asymmetry in carriage caused by an injury is really typical and can sometimes be serious. A good example is the TV show House, where you see Dr. House hobbling around on his cane held on the same side of his body as his bad leg. A real doc would know to use the cane on the opposite side and to step with the bad leg and the cane at the same time. The reason is to try to maintain as much symmetry in balance as possible.
Hi VDavanzo,
Although I am writing a bit late, but I am surprised to read taht you waited a week before thinking for rehab... wow... I tore my ACL last year and got operated in April 2009 and my doctor forced me to go to rehab the very next day of my operation and now its almost a year later I can jog on tredmil but still have pain when I try to bend my knee while standing on the only one leg (one that is being operated).
I tore my ACL in 2008 too and had surgery with a hamstring graft- it was a hard decision, because there wasn't any conclusive evidence one way or the other that it was the best graft. I started blogging about it and got a lot of visitors who said the info was helpful, so I decided to do a survey to collect everyone's wisdom in one place. I need a few more responses before I close it and post the results, can whoever reads this take this ACL survey for me?
http://www.aclsurgery.us/acl-survey/
Thanks!
Hi,
thank you so much for your blog and your personal story of the whole process.
I am a 51 yo guy who will be getting my rt. ACL reconstructed on this coming Thursday, March 3, 2011, with a hamstring graft. Even though I am a medical professional, I am frankly scared of the whole process and the painful aftermath.
Since I also have a spinal injury (Spondylolisthesis Grade 1 with root compression & a totally destroyed disc) with severe damage to L4-L5 with rt.leg neuropathy, weakness, and pain, rehab is even going to be more of a challenge. Since it will be hard to tell what is causing pain and I have to do gentle rehab so as to not make my back worse.
I figure that I better take care of the "easier" thing first. In a previous career I had assisted in thousands of neurosurgical and orthopedic procedures, and am all too aware of what surgery involves, but not the aftermath. Sometimes ignorance is bliss!
Your story has helped a lot with preop anxiety and I will use it as a valuable reference in my recovery.
Thank you so much and
God Bless You!
-Paul :)
Paul4, thanks for your comments and best of luck with your procedure. I'm really happy this blog has been helpful to you. Stop back and let us know how you're doing.
Hi,
I tore my ACL end of January this year. I am waiting now for the surgery.I am so scarred.
I found this blog very helpful, thanks you
Great blog! Thank you so much! Tore my ACL skiing last month. Surgery next week. I too was originally going in for my shoulder and came out with a knee! Shoulder will have to rehab while I deal with the knee. Opting for donor tissue due to already torn hamstring on same side (which quite possibly contributed to the torn ACL). Looks like the key to everything is to rehab, rehab, rehab!
JoBeth, good luck on your procedure and rehab. Stay focused and you'll be fine. You're right I think about the hamstring. Mine were weak and allowed me too easily to hyperextend my knee. That's all it took (that, and skiing in unbuckled ski boots).
I am 23 years old and I just had my ACL reconstructed with my hamstring. It has been about 6 days since my surgery, and yesterday I had a horrible day with it. I had been walking around fine on my crutches and was off my pain meds. Yesterday I couldn't even be in a vertical position without severe pain. The pain is directly below my knee cap and it is a deep stabbing pain. It lasted all day yesterday and it was still there this morning when I got up. I had been doing very well up until this point. The weird thing is whenever I stand up and it starts that stabbing pain, if I lift up on my brace it makes it feel better, almost as if I'm relieving the pressure to my knee cap. It makes absolutely no sense. Has anyone had this happen to them during their recovery??
Thank you!
Kara
Thank you for all the information I have gathered here from all the posts!! I also have torn my ACL and I am getting reconstructive surgery with my own hamstring this tuesday. I am scared to death about the healing process!! I have never been an avid skier, actually I have only gone once. I am 33 years old and I am wondering if skiing will ever become something I can do in the future. I am active and on my feet all day long.
My doctor asked me if i wanted my own hamstring or a donors. He stated that the healing process is more painful with my own, but I would know what I am getting, and there could be complications with a donor.
I am just so freaked out about this and this blog has been quite helpful. Thank you again
Marla, good luck with your procedure next week. If you go through with the hamstring autograft, make sure you read later in the blog about using a foam roll or other hard cylinder to break up scar tissue. It takes a lot of work to get your hamstring strength back, and you need it. That strength will help you prevent a reinjury. You don't want to have this repair done a second time, you just don't.
Be serious about rehab and you'll be fine. Good luck!
Great Blog; very informative, since my experience was a little different, thought I'd leave it behind for some one else to refer to. I snapped(Dr's term) my ACL and partially tore my MCL and gashed my maniscus in a somewhat violient tumble at Breck in mid March this year, 2011. I learned to ski at age 47 and this was my 8th full day of skiing over the course of 12 months since learning. By the time I returned to Missouri from Colorado I had acquired a blood clot as well. So surgery didn't happen until Late September this year. I went the cadaver tendon route, figuring at my age I couldn't afford to lose any more body parts. I rehabed all summer, and now after surgery I started Rehab all over again. The nice thing about it was I already knew the therapists and the routines. 8 weeks after surgery the pain is finally starting to subside and I pick up a few degrees of bend every week. I'm working on an eliptical as well as a stationary bike with progressively lower seat settings, for 30 minutes per day, to augment the rehab routines. The worst part of this process, besides the pain and lack of mobility is that my lower body has lost a lot of musculature over the 8 months since the accident. Recovering that feels like it will be a bigger challenge than mobility. I definitely want to get back to skiing, but I will probably need to wait until the 2012-2013 season. Whats the best way to get back to it though? I was thinking that starting back with the short short skis(ski boards) might be the route to take since the stress for turns would be minimized. Thanks again for the blog.
I was skiing this week inTelluride and fell doing moguls. I felt a pop in my left knee and then experienced intense pain that I've never experienced before. Within a few minutes the pain subsided, but I had it checked out by the ski area clinic physician who had a murky diagnosis. Luckily my sister and brother in law are with u s and my brother in law is a physiatrist ( rehab doctor) and a friend from home who is an orthopedic sugeon both looked at it. I have been icing and taking Motrin and after 3 days I have pretty good range but the swelling hasn't completely subsided. I am determined to keep my muscle tone but am terrified that it's a torn acl- it seems so according to all the info I've gotten and read. Meanwhile we're flying home tomorrow and I have an appointment in 5 days with an OS. Probsbly will order an MRI. My knee feels unstable and based on what I've read I think I'll need surgery. I've been excersizing in a pool since the accident nd I think that's helped me regain my range of motion. This blog is helpful- giving me things to think about and figure out what questions I'll need to ask the OS.
Anon: Good luck with your injury -- hope it turns out not to be very serious, but if it is an ACL tear or whatever, don't get too down on your fortunes. You can come out of it in even better condition if you put in the time. And even if you lose a season of activity, three years later you won't even remember what you missed.
Hi, i snapped my ACL and tore my meniscus on the inside and outside of my knee, in november 2011. Im a 17year old gymnast and whilst in training 3days before a majour comp i was doing a tumble with twists in and im guessing my knee kept twising whilst i landed and it just snapped.. worst pain in my life.. i couldnt straighten my knee and i felt and hurd it my self and felt like it dislocated - even though i didnt know what it was - and this is the first time ive hurd of this injury when i did it! my coach said it was probs nothing but go to A&E just incase.
Anyway a few days latter, my physio sent me to an orthapedic to comferm her thoughts of a snapped ACL and had a MRI on the same day and got the results the same day. I had surgery on the 10th january 2012 - im still in alot of pain in the inside of my knee and its nearly 3months on and i still struggle with stairs and going from doing gymnastics 6 times a week, 4 and a half hours each day to nothing is fustraiting watching people get ahead of me! is it normal to have this pain this far along?
Recently ive replaced doing gymnastics with coaching whilst im in my rehab (wanting to go back after though) but a girl heaveyer and taller than me came crashing into my knee in the inside whilst i was walking and i felt sotmething go but im not sure if it was my ACL! im rather scared as i dont want to of waisted this 3months whilst ive been so carful! How was the rehab for you and what were you able to do at 3months?
I also have a shoulder and wrist problem which occurd whilst i injurd my knee and had an ankle operation last year for a diffrent injury, is it onces you have one injury you get more and more?
Hope all is ok with you now?
Amelia, thanks for posting. All I can tell you about your recovery is keep the faith, stay focused, and don't let up. It's too early to make any conclusions about your knee, so stick with your PT and make the best of it. It's all you can do, right?
Hello! Thanks for the blog! I am 41, and completely tore my ACL skiing last month, in Colorado. I had surgery 13 days ago to reconstruct my ACL with a cadaver graft, and they said I also had some Meniscus damage, as well, that had to be repaired. I only had to take my pain meds for two days, and the pain hasn't been that bad at all. The brace I have to wear and sleep in, is driving me nuts, though! Lol. I am barely using my crutches to walk, now. And I am managing to complete the hours I need to be on the CPM machine everyday. In 2 days, I get my stitches out, and they will unlock my brace, so it can finally bend a little. I won't have to use crutches anymore and I can stop using the CPM machine! Woohoo! But, then I have therapy that will start up next week, and I'm hoping they tell me I don't have to sleep in that annoying brace anymore!! I am really hoping my quad muscle will wake up soon, also!
Anon (4/25), your situation sounds a lot like mine. The femoral block they used wore off for me in a day or two, though I did feel a little residual numbness for a little while afterwards.
Good luck with your procedure -- stay focused on your rehab and let us know how you're making out.
I tore my ACL skiing 4 years ago. The orthopedic told me I didn't need surgery bc I was older(48) and wasn't a professioanal athlete. I worked out on a regular basis, running, hiking, weights... 3 years ago, I became a tennis addict and about 1 year ago, I started feeling pain in my knee. I figured I had been able to play tennis at 3.5 level all this time with no ACL so why bother having surgery. Finally after a really hard 4.0 singles match, I really tweaked my knee and decided to see a different orth. That is when I decided to have surgery as they told me I was wearing down my knee and I didn't want to be a candidate for knee replacement as I'm only 52. Had the surgery 3 weeks ago and doing great. Didn't need any pain meds, walking w/o crutches after 1 week and now walking w/o the brace. Started pt 2 days after surgery and going 2-3 times a week. How do they determine when I can get back on the tennis courts. Already missing it so much.
Val, I started playing social tennis about 4 months post-op -- nothing intense, being very careful not to do anything stupid, as my PT would put it.
I was very careful about forward and back and lateral movements. You'll see from my timeline that a shoulder procedure I had later that same year delayed coming back. If I hadn't had the shoulder done, I think I would have felt comfortable playing serious tennis about 6 months post-op. Good luck!
hello ! going through the same experience (ACL reconstruction on the right knee) and also have a blog to document my recovery timeline b/c i want to ensure other ppl have a source to benchmark their recovery (the same way i avidly looked for info). my blog is http://aclsurgeryrecovery.wordpress.com/ and wanted to see if i can get it in your link page. let me know at your convenience: siacob1@yahoo.com
thanks
Hello all- today marks 2 weeks post ACL reconstruction on my right knee after skiing accident. Like most of you here, I have read hundreds of posts of people who have had acl reconstruction to gain insight into the surgery and recovery. I am a 51 YO female but have been very active my whole life- running, skiing, gardening. Knew surgery would be difficult, but thought I was in shape and could defy the odds....whoa, I was wrong. So I want to comment on this blog to offer encouragement to those of you who find your recovery a little more difficult than what you anticipated: The first week after surgery wasn't bad. The nerve block took about 3 days to wear off. I kept a steady stream of painkillers in my system, not cause I was in tremendous pain, but because I wanted to be prepared when the nerve block wore off! I started PT one week post-op and was encouraged that I was progressing. I had almost full extension but less flexion- LOTS of swelling made it difficult and I'm still on crutches. Week 2 was incredibly frustrating. I seemed to get worse. Pain and swelling was intense and much worse that the first week. I was very frustrated and very depressed. I seemed to be regressing in my physical therapy, couldn't drive and therefore could not return to work. Thank God for my physical therapist. He offered tons of support and told me that this setback was "just a hiccup". He used electric stimulation on my knee, some manual manipulation of my knee cap and showed me how to do this at home. I woke up the next morning and the swelling and the pain was about half! Please, don't get frustrated if you feel you aren't progressing like you should.....your body has sustained major trauma and you must be kind and patient to your body. Allow yourself to heal and rest (this has been difficult for me) Be faithful to your physical therapy. You will recover and you will be strong again. Blessings and best wishes to all the ACL'ers out there!
SAndrews: +1 and thanks for your post. The biggest challenge here is not physical, it's emotional -- it's mental. You need to accept your situation and own your recovery. That's the biggest thing.
I have a friend who needs surgery for ACL/MCL and she's really having trouble seeing how it will all work out. Little steps, do what you can do, but don't let self-pity influence your response.
Btw, I did end up getting the patellar tendon autograft. I'm five years from the surgery now. It was not worth it for the partial tear. Two years ago they said that the OS placed the graft too vertically, so there is still a pivot shift despite all of the rehab and pain that I went through for the surgery. So if you're OS tells you that it's a gray zone whether or not to go for the surgery or not with a partial tear, then opt for doing a lot of physical therapy and building yourself up as best as possible. That's what I would have done if I could do it all again. I have ended up with the same outcome as I had before I went into surgery and just as much rehab as I would have had to do if I never opted for surgery. I guess it's a different story if you have a full tear... just this is for the partial tear folks out there who don't have serious other damage going on.
Very nice blog! I have been searching the web to try and find stories like yours where people have had ACL reconstructions via the autologous hamstring graft. Here's my story: I am 11 years post-op and have not been able to restore the complete range of motion upon flexing the knee while standing. To be clear, this is not an issue of scar tissue but directly related to the lost muscle (1/2 of each of the semitendinosis and gracilis muscles) and the mere inability to pull your heel up to almost touch your gluts. I'm curios if you have observed the same? So, in the past year I have developed significant tightening of the inner thigh/ hamstring muscles (likely my semitendinosis) as it has to take on a great load. This has resulted in tendonitis in the inner AND outer hip region which is due to my endurance training (cycling 100+miles) and shorter distance time-trialing. Long story shorter.....I have been getting therapeutic/deep tissue massages to help relieve congestion in the local and surrounding areas and am going to try KT tape to see if that helps? Curious if you have tried KT tape or other exercises to help maintain flexibility and strength. Oh, I also am big into weightlifting and do squats, leg extensions, curls and lunges weekly. Any thing you can suggest is much appreciated.
Best Regards,
Neil
Update: Now 4 months post op acl cadaver reconstruction. Completed physical therapy and now on my own. My recovery was incredibly slow, and I was so relieved to find this blog and be able to read stories and encouragement from others. As I stated above, it helped me so much to know that my recovery, although slow, was not hopeless. It took me almost 8 weeks to walk on my own, and this was primarily due to the deterioration of my quads. My surgery was 4 weeks after my injury, and combined with recovery time, I lost my quad. Essentially had to learn to walk again. How frustrating. But as Stephen said, the recovery is as much (or more) mental as it is physical. Now, at 4 months, I am walking well, just a very slight limp. Still dealing with quite a bit of swelling by the end of the day. I have almost full extension and about 75% flexion. Was able to kneel on both knees last weekend. Still, I'm encouraged because there was a time when I never thought I would walk without a crutch or cane. My orthopedic surgeon is completely cool with my recovery, saying it will be at least a year before I feel close to normal. Be faithful to your physical therapy, kind to yourself and patient with your body. THANKS FOR THE GREAT BLOG!!
Hi Stephen, stumbled accross your blog (very helpful might I add, thankyou!) In a desperate frenzy of searching the internet for help.
I am an 18 year old dancer training professionally, and had my operation for a torn ACL ten days ago. Before the procedure the consultant/surgeon told me the recovery would be 6-8 weeks, although after research I am reading it could take alot longer - months and months even.
I am set to start training in one month at a school I worked incredibly hard to get a place at. I'd be absolutely heartbroken if I couldn't go because of this.
I was in pretty good fitness before the operation, and could walk normally a week after the operation. When would you say it would be safe to return to dancing? I don't want to increase my risk of injury, but I just can't turn down my place at the school! I am having a hard time coming to terms with it all. Any help on rehabing/recovery would be wonderful, thankyou for having such a helpful blog.
Rayleigh, I can't responsibly comment on when you could return. All I can say is that you have to devote yourself to your recovery and work hard to come out stronger than before the injury.
I think you'll know as you train what you are capable of doing. Training is the only way to develop the confidence you need to perform without fear. Most athletes acknowledge that you are more likely to get hurt if you hold back because of fear (of injury or whatever). But you'll have that fear until you train yourself out of it mentally and physically.
Stop back later and let us know how you're doing.
i had the acl surgery with the patellar tendón autograft for the partial tear and the answer is yes, you have to do therapy for the rest of your life. it was so not worth it to get the surgery with a partial tear.
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