Who's torn their ACL? How do you know? Advice?

**3moose1** · Posted On: 7/21/2008 6:50pm

Originally Posted by Student

That I do.

Holy fucking ****.

So when you kick/knee, you hit with all the rage your ligament possess, because its real master is angry over his death.

**Student** · Posted On: 7/21/2008 8:27pm

Originally Posted by 3moose1

Holy fucking ****.

So when you kick/knee, you hit with all the rage your ligament possess, because its real master is angry over his death.

Yes!!

**Ronin.74** · Posted On: 7/21/2008 8:57pm

Student,

Thanks for all the info, I am planning on getting it checked out as soon as I have insurance or have scraped together enough cash to have it looked at. I have decided at this point to just take it easy as much as I can and tough it out until I can get it taken care of.

**Student** · Posted On: 7/21/2008 10:18pm

Ronin - I think that would be smart - no sense possibly doing further damage if something is torn. You could probably do the exercises I posted since they should not aggravate either a torn ACL or Meniscus (of course you might have something else...) and just start getting the leg strong because if you have surgery, that will be very important to do pre-surgery.

If you want to get more opinions from lots of people who have gone through this go to http://www.kneeguru.co.uk/KNEEtalk/index.php and post your question there.

**Lars** · Posted On: 7/21/2008 11:45pm

If physical therapy is covered by your insurance, or you can afford it, it is incredibly helpful. If nothing else, it really helps you know how much and in what ways you can stress you joint to maximize your healing. To regain ROM after my tear my PT had me (among many other exercises) walk across a room balanced on my heels with my legs as straight as possible. It hurt intensely; I would have never tried without his encouragement because it felt like I was being stabbed, but I credit that, more than any other single exercise, with regaining mobility.

**Student** · Posted On: 7/22/2008 6:15am

Originally Posted by Lars

If physical therapy is covered by your insurance, or you can afford it, it is incredibly helpful. If nothing else, it really helps you know how much and in what ways you can stress you joint to maximize your healing. To regain ROM after my tear my PT had me (among many other exercises) walk across a room balanced on my heels with my legs as straight as possible. It hurt intensely; I would have never tried without his encouragement because it felt like I was being stabbed, but I credit that, more than any other single exercise, with regaining mobility.

Lars - that was 1 of 54 different exercises I was given during my post-op PT. I think PT is a must when you have your ACL replaced and finding a good physical therapist (try to find one who works with athletes/professional sports teams) can really help - I think this is one area that really is the difference from people having a poor outcome after this surgery or a great outcome. Luckily most martial artists/athletes enjoy working out so this usually is not a problem.