Author Topic: I Can Walk!! (Read 573 times)

Octavius · « **on:** October 26, 2002, 02:10:38 PM »

Knee reconstruction on the 16th.

A week of sitting on my arse.

Two days of crutching around.

Ya know what? I don't like them there crutches so I threw'em away and damnit, I can walk just fine! Just a few minutes ago I decided to take a stroll and I feel good

(maybe less than 1mph, but hey, its walking nonetheless)

2 years ago my brother had the very same surgery on his left knee and he recovered pretty damn quick. 3 months later, he was pole vaulting and made it to state to represent our school. I think I might break his record

Ahh this post is pointless, but I'm f*cking happy

woo!

(Yes, I *am* sitting now at the computer... LOL I need to rest first)

SirLoin · « **Reply #1 on:** October 26, 2002, 02:18:44 PM »

Get well soon dweeb.

Hawklore · « **Reply #2 on:** October 26, 2002, 03:16:41 PM »

Good Luck Man!

dont use rudder pedals

funkedup · « **Reply #3 on:** October 26, 2002, 06:46:49 PM »

Yep ACL reconstruction is AMAZING. Doctors RULE.
Congrats man.

Reschke · « **Reply #4 on:** October 27, 2002, 12:14:15 AM »

So Oct how did you tear it up? Heres how I did mine and a little insight into what you are going through.

For me it was a pass route in practice during an off week (5th week of football season) back in 1991 in college. I played tight end then and was running a simple 10 yard hook and right when I caught the pass during the drill the ACL took about 1/4" of my right femur with it. It sounded like someone had fired a .38 pistol right beside me on the field. I went down and thought someone had tackled me but the linebackers were standing about 10 yards away and had a stunned look on their faces. That was when I noticed my foot was stuck under my butt and my lower leg was twisted with my foot still in the place I had planted to make the turn on the artificial turf. I pulled my leg out from under me and tried to stand but it flopped out and I could not put weight on it.

The first attempt to reconstruct my ACL was a failure and it took 2:45 of arthroscopic surgery to repair all the torn cartilage. So I had to go through "Pre-hab" for my real surgery two months later. When I got out of that one I had a piece of Gortex and Kevlar wrapped inside of a cadaver tendon. This was what is known as and LAD (LAD = Ligament Assist Device) with an allograft (sp?) and two screws in my right knee with three scope holes and a 1 inch cut in the lower part of my knee for the LAD to be put through and attached to my femur. That surgery was done on December 6th 1991 (went home on the 7th) and by February 21st 1992 I was back running full speed and taking part in full contact drills and only dropped from a 4.65 40-yard to a 4.80 40-yard speed. So in just over 2 months I was back full speed running but not back to full strength in the weight room. That took about 14 months from last surgery to full strength.

Now I feel it every morning and probably because I spent the next three years running on astro-turf every day preparing for football. It has started giving me real fits at night and I will probably need some more surgery to go in and have it "cleaned" up a bit to eliminate some of those problems. The only reason I went the route I did was because I knew I could make it back so fast and I wanted to be back in time for spring ball to start. The LAD was the key to getting back on the field in less than 3 months.

Anyway Good Luck and don't push it so hard that you try to break a record. Just listen to the PT's and don't yell to loud when they force you to go past 90° ROM in about 2 weeks.

Animal · « **Reply #5 on:** October 27, 2002, 01:05:17 AM »

Dont play football.

Octavius · « **Reply #6 on:** October 27, 2002, 01:16:43 AM »

wow that is amazing, Reschke... especially the recovery time!

Mine was also football related. Week four late in the game: As the fullback, I (fullback) was throwing a kick out block on the end. Someone missed a block and a linebacker took out the back with the ball. All hell broke loose, they ended up airborne and fell on the outside of my right knee. I heard a POP and I fell. The trainer had me lay back so she could check it out. The thing shifted a good 2 inches left and right but it didn't hurt a bit. I got up and walked off the field. Stupid me... we iced it for a few minutes and I got up to walk on it a bit. I asked to go back in the game, they told me to jog and do some cuts on the sidelines... which ended up being a very BAD idea. It popped (er shifted) again, down I went, and I called it quits for the night.

MRI showed basically no cartilage to scope out and the ACL break was in "good" shape for the situation.

My brother had done the same thing two years ago in the fourth week against the SAME team in the SAME period in the game... only with his left knee, not right

Animal · « **Reply #7 on:** October 27, 2002, 01:28:21 AM »

Playing football is as safe as working for the show love muffin.

Kratzer · « **Reply #8 on:** October 27, 2002, 01:50:59 AM »

Less safe, statistically, I bet.

RightF00T · « **Reply #9 on:** October 27, 2002, 01:07:06 PM »

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Originally posted by Animal
Playing football is as safe as working for the show love muffin.

LOL
"Hot sauce in the eye dude!!" *drop*"AHH!!" 10 seconds later enter scene of handsomehunk walking around with eye swollen red, "That hurt".

funkedup · « **Reply #10 on:** October 27, 2002, 08:28:08 PM »

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Originally posted by Animal
Dont play football.

Football players get more poontang.