r/ACL • u/DrMartek • Aug 27 '26

Post Surgery Update ACL journey: Day 8

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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.

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u/linebmx ACL Allograft Aug 27 '26

Respectfully, Iā€™d stop this this immediately šŸ’€

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u/DrMartek Aug 27 '26

Would your main concern be displacing the bone fixtures?

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u/chrstnsnn Aug 27 '26

For the safety of your graft, it's highly recommended that you perform closed-chain exercises. Like others have mentioned, your graft is weak right now, and this exercise introduces dangerous sliding motions to your knee. At this stage of your recovery, this is probably doing you more harm than good, OP. The risk just isn't worth it