The ACL Repair Blog Firsthand accounts of ACL surgery and recovery

Looking around the internet i found sportsknee.com that has some highly informative animations of various orthopedic procedures, including ACL Reconstruction.
Watching these videos is really infomative, but definately a little cringe-worthy.

Repairing an ACL is more aptly described as replacing it.  It seems like the first question after you’ve decided to get the surgery seems to be what graft material you want to use to replace the ligament.  The choices as presented to me are:

A piece of your own hamstring tendon
A piece of your pattelar ligament

“Allograft“, [...]

Ok, i’m scheduled for 8:45am on Nov 26th, the day before thanksgiving.
Sadly this means i’ll miss out on my annual trip to Maneki

I’m here in the office waiting to see the doc. There is a somewhat ominous poster on the wall asking me if I am a candidate for total joint replacement. I hope thy I am not.
I’m also noticing the average age ok the dressing room is way down today, probably in the 30s.
I’ve [...]

I got a call from the doctor this morning.  As I suspected my ACL is fully torn, and there’s also a small tear in my miniscus. That speaks well to the life of this blog!
The doctor mentioned that since this will be my second repair in this knee there will be some complicating factors. He [...]

Truth be told i don’t have a primary care physician.  I’m 25 and generally healthy, with the exception of the occasional bike injury.  Last it was a broken collar bone, before that a rather catastrophic set of arm fractures.
When i decided on Monday that  I needed to see a doctor I knew it needed to [...]

I’m not saying it was the most intelligent or dignified thing, but one week ago i found myself riding on the rack of a friend’s bicycle.  Dressed in a pig costume.   It was halloween, we were going to fast and I fell off.  And when I fell it was onto a straight left leg with [...]

It looks like I’ve gone and tore my left ACL for the second time. Gotta stop doing that!