Knee surgery squad ?

I've got a buddy that played college hockey without an ACL, got it removed like you... said he didn't bother him. He was also built like a brick shithouse with quads the size of tree trunks so perhaps that helped.

Tore mine last season and about to get back on skis for the first time. Do your rehab is my only tip

Not a knee, but I fractured my femur right above my knee in Feb....

Definitely be on top of your rehab and try to keep your hip joint as mobile as you can. I slept on it and have been dealing with some gnarly chronic hip/lower back pain for the past few months.

Injured my knee in january, justot cleared to ski by my doc- Acl reconstruction and partial menisectomy

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Tore my 2nd acl last April, still waiting on the Canadian healthcare system to get surgery.

shredded ACL and MCL February 2020 as a secondary injury to a spiral fractured arm. Took my doctors 4 months to figure out anything was torn after constant complaining from me about my knee

I tore my acl early season 2019 while working for the hill so I didn’t ski for the rest of that season had surgery booked in June 2019 turned out I had to get brain surgery the day before so that never happened didn’t ski in 2020 so I was done waiting last year I skied with a fully torn acl . Then had a date this summer to finally get it fixed was also cancelled. Really debating getting a pass this year I just want them to fix it I did a whole lot of physio and rehab and still do to maintain my leg strength let’s say I can’t ski at my best this way unfortunately and I do get pain on some days but at this point with my situation being so lengthy I don’t even know anymore. I consider myself a pretty active person I’m not sure why it’s taking so long or if I’m even taken seriously at this point. Wishing you to get your leg good again

**This post was edited on Nov 5th 2021 at 1:54:53pm

6.5 months out of my third orthopedic scoped surgery on my left knee.

#1 clean ACL tear in early 2011 at 18 years old, bounced back pretty well was playing full contact football within 9 months and hitting rails and jumps first year

#2 2017 @ 25 years old: Meniscus tear as a result of tibial plateau fracture and femoral condyle fracture: the plateaus of both leg bones Smashed together and clipped the meniscus in between. Got scoped but ultimately they couldn’t repair it so they poked it a few times to make it bleed and hopefully stimulate healing. Also had back and pelvic fractures so it took about 1.5+ years of PT/bodyweight/banded exercises ultimately progressing back into weighted lifts, yoga, and cross country mountain biking. Was frustrating but ultimately I came back in the best shape of my life and was the best skier I’ve ever been from 26-28.

#3 this spring @ 28 years old 😭 retore my ACL and “macerated” (aka tore up in a non-linear fashion) my lateral and medial meniscus. This one reallyyyy hurt physically and emotionally taking another Loss after battling so hard from the last one. Still not at 100% after almost 7 months. I know I’ll get there but I don’t know if I’ll ever really assume those kinds of risks on my skis ever again. I hate being out for a whole season and honestly this injury trashed my mental health and I was one of the worst versions of myself this summer and gained like 30 lbs. Still bouncing back and trying to restart my fitness routine.

moral of the story is respect your body!! Strengthen your legs but also your low back, hips, and core!

Chill out on drinking and smoking if you’re a party person and put the emphasis on rehab and fitness and you will bounce back no problem!!

The best skiing and the best times of my life happened after my first two life-altering injuries…. You WILL get there just keep the faith and trust the process.

I have to keep telling myself that I’ll get through this, but I’m sad about not skiing how I always have and not chasing the feeling I’ve been chasing for 10+ years. Ultimately, all we can do is take care of our bodies and ski for fun and that’s really all that matters

QuaggyI've got a buddy that played college hockey without an ACL, got it removed like you... said he didn't bother him. He was also built like a brick shithouse with quads the size of tree trunks so perhaps that helped.

Used to have great quads slowly getting those back hahah

DlonettiTore mine last season and about to get back on skis for the first time. Do your rehab is my only tip

How’d that go for you? Been taking mine real easy

Thegenericskiershredded ACL and MCL February 2020 as a secondary injury to a spiral fractured arm. Took my doctors 4 months to figure out anything was torn after constant complaining from me about my knee

How have you been doing since

donotreplyI tore my acl early season 2019 while working for the hill so I didn’t ski for the rest of that season had surgery booked in June 2019 turned out I had to get brain surgery the day before so that never happened didn’t ski in 2020 so I was done waiting last year I skied with a fully torn acl . Then had a date this summer to finally get it fixed was also cancelled. Really debating getting a pass this year I just want them to fix it I did a whole lot of physio and rehab and still do to maintain my leg strength let’s say I can’t ski at my best this way unfortunately and I do get pain on some days but at this point with my situation being so lengthy I don’t even know anymore. I consider myself a pretty active person I’m not sure why it’s taking so long or if I’m even taken seriously at this point. Wishing you to get your leg good again

**This post was edited on Nov 5th 2021 at 1:54:53pm

Hopefully yours is going better I’m taking it slow!

mikemac6.5 months out of my third orthopedic scoped surgery on my left knee.

#1 clean ACL tear in early 2011 at 18 years old, bounced back pretty well was playing full contact football within 9 months and hitting rails and jumps first year

#2 2017 @ 25 years old: Meniscus tear as a result of tibial plateau fracture and femoral condyle fracture: the plateaus of both leg bones Smashed together and clipped the meniscus in between. Got scoped but ultimately they couldn’t repair it so they poked it a few times to make it bleed and hopefully stimulate healing. Also had back and pelvic fractures so it took about 1.5+ years of PT/bodyweight/banded exercises ultimately progressing back into weighted lifts, yoga, and cross country mountain biking. Was frustrating but ultimately I came back in the best shape of my life and was the best skier I’ve ever been from 26-28.

#3 this spring @ 28 years old 😭 retore my ACL and “macerated” (aka tore up in a non-linear fashion) my lateral and medial meniscus. This one reallyyyy hurt physically and emotionally taking another Loss after battling so hard from the last one. Still not at 100% after almost 7 months. I know I’ll get there but I don’t know if I’ll ever really assume those kinds of risks on my skis ever again. I hate being out for a whole season and honestly this injury trashed my mental health and I was one of the worst versions of myself this summer and gained like 30 lbs. Still bouncing back and trying to restart my fitness routine.

moral of the story is respect your body!! Strengthen your legs but also your low back, hips, and core!

Chill out on drinking and smoking if you’re a party person and put the emphasis on rehab and fitness and you will bounce back no problem!!

The best skiing and the best times of my life happened after my first two life-altering injuries…. You WILL get there just keep the faith and trust the process.

I have to keep telling myself that I’ll get through this, but I’m sad about not skiing how I always have and not chasing the feeling I’ve been chasing for 10+ years. Ultimately, all we can do is take care of our bodies and ski for fun and that’s really all that matters

Yeah I’ve been raking it pretty mellow this year no jumping hadn’t can’t keep myself from small 1’s and 3s off knolls but won’t let myself get any air until next year but thinking just for knees sake the days of landing harder than powder stompers are over

bentchets303Hey guys, and gals
So I tore my Acl and meniscus last spring at the Key out here in Colorado. I had my first surgery last may and then before my second one I was riding a scooter downtown and nearly got smacked by a car and dodged the car but i masheeeed the curb, pretty bad. Went back in found out it was retorn, so I just went and had the rescheduled second surgery but my meniscus was so shredded, they took it out, Acl is fixed. I was curious if anyone else has their meniscus taken out? Or just your other knee surgery recovery and surgery stories! My surgery was through panorama orthopedics in golden but I know they have a few locations, anyone else go there too?

Hey, I hope it gets better for you. I tore my ACL and meniscus 12 years ago. it sucks. My meniscus was not so effed up that they had to take out the whole thing, but a section is gone. And that part of the recovery was the hardest. My advice to you

1) Listen to Doctor,
2) Therapy (and look at therapy not just in terms of allotted sessions you have to go to, but integrate it into your lifestyle,
3) Move on to strength training as an extension of therapy (with a trainer if possible or even under guidance of your PT if they have worked with athletes alot before).
IMO, strength training is that key link between therapy and FULLY performing at your potential, and also protecting the knee from reinjury. This is key in athletes and where you are different than Billy Bob from Texas who hurt himself while skiing in jeans. Your therapy plus strength training can get your muscles so there is less pressure/grating on your meniscus (might not be the most elegant way of describing it).
4) take some time to reflect and slowly ease back into it. If I were you, I would suggest going back into something that is part of the sport but not emphasizing your athletic ability or pushing your own limits for your first season back in.

My sister is in med school in Denver and doing her orthopedic rotations right now. What I have learned is that different doctors literally specialize in different surgeries. I would suggest asking lots of questions/doing your research to find out how much experience the doctor has in that kind of surgery you are doing. You want someone who does a crap ton of knee surgeries like it. Might also be worth getting a second opinion to see if the whole meniscus in fact has to come out or if they can salvage some of it. IIRC, the meniscus doesn't really have its own blood supply so I think that's why they can't fix it like other things and it has to come out.

Earlier this season I made a couple laps with a random dude and he sent a 3 way past the landing. First day back on his new MCL and he knew he retore it. He was more pissed than in pain, I can feel that for sure.

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I’ve got one weekend of skiing left this season. Made it through the whole thing fine skiing pretty much exclusively park. Was a little sore in the beginning of the season but felt back to normal about mid way through

bentchets303How’d that go for you? Been taking mine real easy

bentchets303How have you been doing since

Couldn’t be better, ditched the knee brace 2 months ago for skiing and I’ve never felt so normal skiing again

Update: I WENT SKIING 3 times last week wooot woooooot

Ended up having my FOURTH knee scope done in early December which totally delayed my season BUT it worked, I feel amazing, and made some awesome progress in my career and personal life w a few extra months off hill.

I was totally locked up and scarred, didn’t make any flexion/range of motion progress between August and November. Was sooo bummed that I was behind schedule and going under the knife again but it was totally worth it.

Doc knocked me out, made 2 incisions one for the camera one for the tool, and performed a “lysis of adhesion” in the scarred up quadriceps pocket where he had harvested the new ACL graft from. He used a microscopic saw/file tool to snip out the scar tissue that had “adhered” to the joint.

He then performed a “manipulation under anesthesia” basically forcing my leg into flexion while I was knocked out. He got my heel to touch my butt which I could not have tolerated if I was awake.

it was like a mini 10 day recovery, one day on 2 crutches, two days on one crutch, two days day relearning how to walk (for the third time in 2021 lmao), and then straight back into aggressive PT and activity.

he cleared me To ski in February but I decided to wait another month and really hammer my exercises and it was worth the wait I felt super good day one.

Time heals all and patience is a virtue 🙏🏼
namaste mfers