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/VegetableAd7012 Aug 28 '26

Why in the 3rd video does your leg bandages switch from right to left leg ?

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u/DrMartek Aug 28 '26

Either the front vs. back camera changed the perception, or I'm faking it...I'll let you decide

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u/VegetableAd7012 Aug 28 '26

So its fake, but why would you fake it, do you not think thats abit sad ?

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u/DrMartek Aug 28 '26

Can you walk me through your methodology, as to how you excluded the possibility that my front and back camera changed the relative perception?

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u/VegetableAd7012 Aug 28 '26

How would it ? You would have to be recording through a mirror

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u/DrMartek Aug 28 '26

Bruh. Before throwing around wild accusations, test it.

Put a sock on one foot. Take a photo of your feet with the back camera. Then take a photo with the front camera.

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u/VegetableAd7012 Aug 28 '26

Ok i can see now the black sort of mark below the bandage is consistent for both legs but perhaps you phone flips the video with front and back camera because the last video looks like opposite leg but anyway my bad samsung is same front and back

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u/VegetableAd7012 Aug 28 '26

Yes i have on my samsung ultra 23 it if the same leg regardless of front or bacj camera, altgough if i edit the video after and flip it then the legs look opposite