hello fellow acl injury victims.
Eng4WorldCup hows your knee now after a year and some?
i've done my left leg acl in november and had the surgery just before new year, so it's been 7 weeks from the operation. started walking without crutches around 9 days after the operation, was walking normally after like 4 weeks. at the moment the knee is still feeling sore and stiff and the chin area is stiff aswell, but the knee bends almost fully and goes fully straight. i've lost quite alot of muscle from the leg, though when streightening the muscles still come out, so thats a good base to build on.
next week i'm starting to build up the strenght with light weights on leg press and such, my physio also told me that i could start juggling with a football with my right leg cos that would mean balancing on the left. the he underlines how important balance is. thankfully i havent lost the general balance of the knee, just the strenght.
so far i have been exercise biking for 3 weeks 3 times a week in the gym and started rowing and crosstraining last week. along them i have other basic movements which i do or at least try to do in between the days when i dont go to the gym. hopefully the general soreness and stiffness of the knee starts to ease up soon and with the knee strenghtening a bit more, hopefully i can start gentle jogging in mid march.
the ultimate aim would be to be able to get back to football at the start of july, but theres still a long way to go. long battle against patiency. the fact that i dont really like going to the gym makes the battle harder, but atm i'm really enjoying the feeling of getting generally fit again.
and man i havent posted here in ages.
