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I'm walking now and I have zero pain other than where they took a couple screws out that I had from the past. That felt like a broken bone for a while but its been 24 days so that has worn off for the most part. But keep in mind to be overly cautious for a while. I still wear my brace everytime I go out and i still use one crutch just to be safe and it also keeps people from bumping into you if you know what I mean. I don't really need it but I have it if I do and kinda use it as a cane. Better safe than sorry. No use screwing up a perfectly good surgery.
Funny story about the crutch. Its deer season here and I spend the weekend at hunting camp with my Dad and my two neighbor twins. I shot two deer each about 200 yards away while standing and using my crutch as a tripod. It worked great. Then I made the twins drag them. lol Sometimes being injured isn't all bad.
I know what you mean about the blanket kicking thing, except for me its my two little sons, they always have a some kind of ball on the floor somewhere and I'll be damned if I dont still give em a little kick everytime and think "what the hell did I do that for".
im 18 so idt ill be too bad, ive been working out alot cuz its been 5 weeks since i tore it (complete tear) been using a resistance band working it as much as i can take trying to keep it stong. also been doing some cardio on an eliptical so thats good but I'm ready for surgery.
hopefully with good PT and alota work ill be riding by april and be able to make lorettas this year since i've missed it last year. bummed im missing the off season to riding and train but I wanna be ready by spring and LL qualifiers
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Just kidding man, Im sure you'll be fine.
As it stands I am a one of a kind case.
Glad to see your doing better though man, that skin reaction looked nasty!
I went back for my followup last wed -- dr said everything was good. I even drove my car (standard) 2 1/2 hours down there. I'm 2 1/2 weeks out. 0-135 on my acl repair side and 0-145 on the donor knee... 10 more degrees to go and I can start running again! He said once I'm able to run a lil then I can progress into sprinting.. Then after that follows the getting back into riding.. So its gonna be sooner than I thought I'm pretty stoked. I haven't had any pain other than trying to keep my leg straight. I'm real stiff when I wake up from sleeping with my knees bent so its a pain in the ass working them back to straight.
EDIT: Just got back from physical therapy. Range of motion is 0-140 degree's in my acl knee.
He, like the other docs I have seen was amazed at the 7 day nerve block. He couldn't believe a culture hadn't been ordered on my skin condition. He's really concerned that there is an infection which was not addressed under the necrotic area of my knee.
This pic is from two days ago:
Both are about the same. One is going on 10 years old, the other one 11...imagine that?
take care of it and dont riode like an idiot in the future, you will be fine
the most interesting thing I ever saw RC say in an interview is that he considers it extremely important to ride with the balls of your feet on the peg rather than the arches- this keeps your foot from getting caught up in ruts and jacking your knee...important shit
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Just got back from meeting with the specialist about my skin issue around my knee. The long story short is, he feels that whatever the numbing agent was that was injected into me after surgery was contaminated somehow. The photos I showed him of my knee from 3 days after my surgery already showed the damage had started. He said my overall good health is the reason that some of it is healing but the black part is dead and has no shot at coming back. He said while there appears to be no infection right now, that doesnt mean there wont be an infection tomorrow or in a week and because it is going to need a graft no matter what, we might as well do it sooner rather than later. He also said while the black tissue is "gangrenous" its what they call "dry gangrenous", not "wet gangrenous" and there is a big difference between the two. Dry gangrenous is not really a big deal in the grand scheme of things.
So, our plan of attack is I am having the necrotic tissue debrided as deeply as it needs to be to reach good tissue and then using grafts from my thigh/hip to start the new tissue regeneration. This happens next thursday at Genesis right by my house. Doc says it will only take about 30 minutes and the donor area from my leg will hurt more than my knee.
You would be amazed at the percentage of people that get infections from the Hospital OR. It is really high and that is why a shift is being made for state funded insurances not covering payment for treatment for such things anymore.
I would get a lawyer. This would be a slam dunk settle out of court with an arbitrator deal.
The reason being as explained to me is as follows. In the perfect world you would never need your ACL if your Hamstring, Quads and calve muscles where strong enough. The muscle group working together would keep the knee in place. If you remember when you hurt your knee, these muscle groups probably weren't exerted when you incurred your injury.
When you do squats you are using both muscle groups, hamstring and quad in both directions of the exercise as well as calves. They are building at the same rate and working together to keep your knee in place at three points at all times during the exercise.
When doing leg extensions you are only using your quad. This is only one point of stability in a three point system. Beyond that, when you do a leg extension all the force is put directly on the ACL. No hamstring to back it up and no calve muscle to keep it aligned.
Do a leg extension and look at your leg. You can see it with your own eyes and it makes perfect sense.
On another hand, leg extensions done as an isometric is a very good exercise. No movement or range of motion. Try that, and you will see all 3 muscle groups at work.
If you can't do squats then you have no business doing leg extensions. That is just my belief.
I am always getting in trouble for doing to much but I just take myself to fatigue not muscle soreness or procedure soreness. If I can do my exercises a couple times a day and not get sore I know I've done as much as I can without compromising doing to much. As far as exercise, I'll just do what it gives me and I'm satisfied with the progress so far. Good luck on everything and keep working hard.
Another tip I've learned about squats and you can do this during wall squats. If you look at your knee while going down you should be able to see the tip of your toes. As you get better and better you can go lower and lower and still see the tips of your toes.
If you can't see the tips of your toes in your line of site you are not benefiting yourself, you are just making your knee sore. Try that and see if you don't do better with your squats.
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