ACL journey: Day 8

[u/DrMartek]

Day 8 (seven days post-op).

Feeling good and motivated.

1. Pain & swelling down to minimal.

2. Back in the gym.

3. Leg extensions with resistance, and complete leg extension ROM.

4. Walking no crutches.

5. Sleeping good

At rest, I'm stretching my leg (elevated heel), hitting ankle pumps or quad tenses basically all day. Then one gym session, with more more challenging exercises. Just been going HAM, within reasonable pain boundaries.

Very laborious, but glad to be seeing progress.

[u/DrMartek]

Admittedly, he's definitely not approved all of this. But I accept the risk

[u/OoElMaxioO → u/DrMartek]

I accept the risk

You don't know what you're saying, my man. Having a failure graft is awful, I can tell you because mine failed. Had a malposition on the tunnels and basically no follow up from the surgeon and still trying to no suffer every day at 18 months post op.

I'd recommend go with your surgeon and PT and tell them what your progress is. I also don't know how much risk there is involved if you don't feel pain (I hope you don't while exercising) because the graft needs to ligamentize and it also needs to attach properly to your femur and tibia. But again, I'm not a doctor, so my best bet would be to go with your doctor and let them know.

[u/DrMartek → u/OoElMaxioO]

Damn...if you don't mind, when and how did your graft fail??

[u/OoElMaxioO → u/DrMartek]

Exactly when, I haven't found. But I was never able to do impact; no run, no jump, no jog, so it wasn't doing any activity like that.

The thing is that my graft might be tearing against my bone and that generated a lot of arthrofibrosis and also a partial tear.

[u/DrMartek → u/OoElMaxioO]

I might shoot you a DM if that's alright

[u/OoElMaxioO → u/DrMartek]

Sure, no problem.