The ACL Repair Blog Firsthand accounts of ACL surgery and recovery

I’m walking a bit, but decided to take my crutches to work anyway today. I dilligently spent my 4-6 hours a day ok the CPM over the long weekend,but only had about 30 minutes to work on it this morning.

Here I am with my leg in the machine and Charlie Wilson’s war on the laptop. I don’t have much pain and have increased the range of motion in the machine by five degrees.
I can do my foot rotations to keep blood moving. This is to prevent blood clots, but more importantly it makes me [...]

As it’s Thanksgiving and my brothers are in town I decided to come home to my parents house after the surgery. Most of that time has been spent on the couch with my leg in the CPM.
I’m a little sore, but with the oxy i can’t feel much. Going up and down [...]

Surgery is done. Doc says it went well. Now I’m covered in one of those awesome heated blankets.

Pictures of my knee the night before.

The continuous motion machine was delivered today which felt good, like a step towards recovery.
I’m to spend 2-3 hours in the device for a week. That will be quite easy the first four days as I’ll be off work for the thanksgiving holiday. That leaves me with only three days to wake up early for [...]

This past weekend had some truly gorgeous points in Seattle. Sunday in particular was just a fantastically beautiful fall day, the kind of day that makes sitting idly with a bum knee truly painful. A perfect day for a long bike ride, a hike in the newly frosted mountains or a sail in [...]

With my surgery coming in less than a week it’s time for me to start getting my life in order to prepare for a period limited mobility. The good news is I’ve done all this before so I have some ideas of what i’ll do:
Get the apartment clean- Cleaning is so much easier [...]

This is another great animation (sorry embedding is disabled) of an ACL repair. This time using a piece of Patellar ligament.
There are a ton of great animations on youtube.  I highly recommend going and playing around with them.

As previously noted I’ve opted to take the Allograft route for my upcoming ACL surgery. Today i’m compiling a list of resources regarding the use of Allograft or cadaver tissue in ACL repairs.
Allograft vs. Autograft in ACL Reconstruction Medscape.com - This article is brief but rather technical. It contains a couple of good images [...]