Wow torn ACL's what more can an athlete want? yeah right this sucks so much im only 14 and ive torn my ACL and damaged my meniscus i dont mind so much around the meniscus because the doctor said it would heal i na matter of 6 weeks
but what really sucks is the ACL i cant have Surgery unntil the growth plates are done and they sai atleast 2 year thats gonna hurt my activity and i love Football =( all i head was this loud pop and my knee gave in and it was the most pain i have ever felt even more than bones and when it happend i heard it go straight up my body and i gave in and i my friend next to was like whats wrong and i said did you hear that and he said nope i said sh*t i think i tore my ACL man it hurts
and the thing is im not afraid of the surgery i wish more than anything that i can have it now but its not safe at all and especially because im living overseas because my dad is in the military and here where we are stationed the hospitals suck ( in Slovakia ) yep and like i said its not the surgery that bothers me its the 2 years that im not going to be able to do football at the best of my ability i will have to wear a brace.
and i have one question im going to get a brace from DonJoy to support my knee i want to know if this will allow me to play to my top physical ability and will it actualy keep my knee/leg stable? also after surgery i heard rehab sucks but thats ok but after reconstruction is the ACL more prone to getting injuries again or is it the same as it was before i tore it?
Yeah. If you wanna go into the knees lets go. haha. I have osgood slaughters disease, patella femoral disorder and discoid meniscus, I've torn my ACL and ripped my minicsus up in my left knee. Two surgerys later... It still hurts like a b!tch. I really hate to say it but you will never be able to play like you have before. My injurys took me out of basketball after my freshman season. When I stand up after crouching you can here my miniscus crunch between my bones.
Surgery helps but, for me, it didn't make it right. I had arthroscopic surgery to repair both the ACL and the miniscus. My knee still locks up DAILY, I can't run fast, balance on my left leg, make sudden stops while moving fast or take a hard right turn, using my left foot to pivot. I wear a brace with metal bars on the side that help it from buckling when playing softball and it does help but it doesn't take the pain away.
The surgery isn't a must but for a younger person it is nice to have. Especially if you plan on doing a lot on it (besides walking, jogging etc).
Rehad is a b!tch. It seems like the therapist makes you do stuff just so she can laugh at you as you hurt.
I know I made it sound HORRIBLE but it isn't. You can still do all the normal daily things and it may or may not lock up on you. Just take it easy till you have surgery, assuming you do.
I wish I could find the pics of the inside of my knee that were taken. Pretty cool. Anyway, hope I didnt scare you and I hope I answered some questions you had. Good luck bro
yeah man sounds like you have it worse for me so im greatful i mean its torn now and amazingly i can still walk and run even without a brace but not at top speeds and i was the fastest kid in my school to =( oh well and yeh and maybe every like week or so if i do a wierd motion it buckles up but very rarely and i dont have any pain what so ever so yeh
well even if Rehab is a b1tch i hope the doctor is a hot young chick haha
nahh man dont worry its not worrying me i watched some vids on the surgery it looks so cool except the part where they take a graft from a tendon dats kinda wierd haha
but yeah you answered alot of the questions i had and nah im not scared its all cool. thanks man and also i hope dat doctors can find a way to make ur knee better totaly cuz it seemed like u were doing good in basketball =/
my dad tore his and claims he feels the knee he tore it in is stronger than the other one. Granted he's old and I guess he had a sweet surgeon, but idk, i guess thats kinda cool
Yeah there are plenty of pro athletes that come back from these injuries and are 100% as functional as before. Not saying Andrews case isn't true, I think it just depends on the nature/severity of the injury, and how well the surgery/rehab goes.
Don't give up hope, just be diligent about the rehab and recovery process.
yeah, my friend had surgery on his acl, the first time the best surgeon in Oklahoma did it, hes ou's surgeon and is a surgeon on the olympic team, and is recommended nation wide. surgery went great, no pain after wards, well he tore it again in football, this time another surgeon did it, he has been in pain ever since, i think i big part of it, depends on the surgeon doing the cutting.
ahhh sh!t tearin the ACL is the most hardcore thing dats happened to me hahah i only broke my hand twice before and dats it by ermm punching the same dude twice (whistles) hehe but anyway yeah how bad did those hurt?
oh yeah i also had my toncils or tonsels i frgt how to spell them taken out haha yea HARDCORE
A lot of the pain comes from the cartilage inbetween my bones in my knee.
Discoid miniscus means that your miniscus is a round shape instead of a cresent shape that is supposed to be. The ACL still gives me problems though. Guess I shoulda visited a better doctor
my friend played his junior year in basketball without an acl.. youll be alright, no sudden cuts tho bro. once its torn completley you arent exerting any pressure on it anyways..
"no offense but i find this pretty funny, you join this forum to ask about an injury, why not check into a medical forum?"
that was my first thought when i saw this thread was his first post. i'm thinking he googled something about ACL injuries and something came up from a thread here. I vaguely remember there being a thread once about acl or shoulder injuries or something. may have been a chase thread.
dude i love chiodos. they were at warped, so was mayday parade, im friends with evergreen terrace on myspace. they are badass too. ive never heard of tdwp, unless ive never abreviated it before..
They came through here bout 2 months ago with chiodos and alesana.
If I went through all the bands I liked we would be here for forever..
I forgot to mention maylene and the sons of disaster and akissforjersey. We just need a new topic for kickass bands. Screw rap. haha, nothin against ya Bradley Hocevar, I just cant stand it. Except for Cant touch this. Blare that in the Wal-Mart parkin lot and a lot of people will look at ya. haha
there are medical forums? sh!t haha i didnt know and yeah ur right i was just googleing and i came across this website and sighned up and just posted this up here ooops lol oh well
Norma Jean rocks. I've listened to strapping a little and they are good. If you like the bands you listed above, check out the devil wears prada and catherine.
maylene and the sons of disaster, My Hero is Me, I Am Ghost, and Underoath are all good too, just not as hard
lol well who cares wat music we like i dnt judge ppl on wat style or wat music dey r as long as dey are themselfs and dnt try to get in ym face and piss me off and stuff i respect dem
