So for people who have torn their acl, a question

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freeski1620

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how do you know for shure? im still in denial i guess because i can still do everything like run and i skied half the season with it like this. but last week when i went to the doctor he saw me for all of 5 minutes and told me i had torn it. im getting an mri done monday so idk. can anyone tell me more about this?
 
If he says its torn, it is. Same shit happened to me. I thought he was a dumbass docter because i could do all these activies and shit, but i was just in denial. The MRI will just make it set in stone, its a tough road, get ready.
 
clicking, locking, giving out, or anything like that is a generally a good sign you did it. Does it feel loose or instable?
 
next spring? you are gonna be in alot of pain during skiing and that will be hell on your miniscus. Standard recovery after knee surgery is 6 months, i sked after 4 months with accelerated rehab (aka shit load of PT) you could get surgery now and ski.
 
thats what i was thinking. im nto in pain now tho. i climb and bike on a daily basis and walk around the shop where i work as a laborer for 8-10 hours a day. thats why im in denial. and ski season starts at haloween, are you crazy?
 
ive done both acls. get it done as quick as possible... and dont expect to be skiing to your full potential until about 10 months after... the mental game is harder than the physical part of it
 
You could have just have a partial tear and surgery is not required just minimal activiy. I have partial tears in both ACLs and I had to spend a month with little activity... but the MRI I would do because if there is any damage they can fix it I didn't have mine looked at and now there are times were it hurts to walkl and I can't run on pavement for very long with out major pain... but what the fuck do I know?
 
im fuckin scared, i dont want to tear my acl/mcl. it looks like it would be so shitty. especially surgeory/recovery. ive seen pics of people who got surgeory, it lookes horrible, the knee is all swollen and shit, staples/stitches....no thank you.
 
Honestly, a torn ACL isn't that bad. Compare it to other injuries or such; paralysis, amputations, a bad disease.

It's gona be a pain in the ass for a while; do your rehab as hard as you can and you'll be fine in 6 months to a year. In the grand scheme of things, a torn ligament isn't something to fret over.

I've had 3 surgeries on my ACL (not 3 reconstructions thank god, I wouldn't be able to walk) and from experience I can tell you that it's not something work getting worked up over, it's minor.
 
I tore mine a while back but was too young to do surgery, so I tried to play football and ski on it.. both of which ended in a fucked up patella tendon and a torn meniscus. I'd get it done ASAP. Mine still sucks sometimes, but everyone else I've known to get knee surgeries are doing fine.
 
same thing happened to me. i can still run and do everything pretty normally, but its unstable as fuck. good luck.
 
i've also torn both my acl's. i tore my left knee acl in october on a tramp...skied during the winter...ran a few days a week...played pretty much any sport. if your doc says it's torn he/she is probably right. the mri will tell you how badly it is torn & if there is any meniscus damage.
 
I had my ACL surgery in the beginning of August last year, and I was skiing again by the end of September.
 
i hope thats me as well. kinda makes me feel a little better. i could deal with even 4 months. im loking to be back on snow by 36 hours of ski stoned. yessssss.
 
probebly only a partial tear, the mri will give you your answer, If you are still that active & without any problems

why worry, cause it sounds like it ain't totaly blown.

Good luck on the outcome of the test
 
meniscus is the real problem. but be careful. i tore my acl skiing, and ignored it. 2 months later i felt a pop on the other side of my leg and my meniscus was gone. do everything the doctor tells you or youre going ot regret the decision some time or another
 
1,5 year ago i had an acl surgery to, it taked 9 months until i was fully recovered, then docter gave me the green light to ski again..

4 days ago i crashed whit a 720, and my ski didnt get off..

I torned my knee again, i couldnt walk for 2 days, now i have to w8 for the photos of the mri scan whit was made today, maybe i have to do the surgery again.:( ..

 
Get it done now. But don't think you'll be skiing hard in 4 months. That's crazy and an excellent way to get it done twice and spend 2 years waiting to ski hard again. Get it done now, and don't ski until spring. Also, if it really is torn, and you ski all season, you might have fun. A small percentage of people do completely fine without their acl's. However, what is much more likely is that sometime in the middle of the season you will form a little tear somewhere in your meniscus. After that happens, you will definitely start hurting -- hurting so bad that skiing is not fun anymore, just scary and painful. Then it will be May and you'll finally get surgery. Round about the start of the following winter, you'll try skiing again and realize that all the people who said you could recover in four months were full of shit and that eight months is much more like it. Then you'll finally ski again in January, or February. Cool, except that all the pain you felt the year before, when you were trying to ski a whole season with no acl, will be engraved in your mind. All that pain will have trained you to be really scared of being hurt, and even though your leg is healthy now, two years later, your mind will be far from it. So every time you feel pain in your leg, you will trip out and think you have to get surgery again. This fear will stay with you for the rest of the season, at least. And so you will have spent TWO shitty seasons getting over your injury: the one where you tried to ski with no acl; and the next one, where you're paranoid because of the pain you felt in the season before. If you just get surgery now, you spend one shitty season, and then you're healthy next year. So two seasons out, or one season. Which one do you think sounds like a better plan?
 
as stated above. meniscus is the worry. my bro was playing some basketball for school. in a game, someone landed on top of him and his knee gave away. it was a pretty loud pop, he said. it was fine to walk on in a few minutes, so they put him in to play again. someone fell on him again. that's when the real damage was done. his meniscus was crap, and he had to have mondo surgury.

moral:

if you're acl is torn, don't let it get to the other goods.
 
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