re: ACL Injuries: Tips and Things to Know - UPDATE PG. 3

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Stick with the rehab. The biggest thing is weak quad muscles post surgery called quad inhibition which is associated with surgeries like ACL. Pain receptor signals from your knee inhibit your quad from contracting causing atrophy over time. Typically some sort of e-stim will be used to counteract this.

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Got it.

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My biggest advice that I didn't see mentioned (and this goes for all ligament cases we see) is to realize that ACL's take around a year to fully heal. Although the rehab will not take nearly that long, one of the biggest causes for tearing the graft is overdoing it before the ligament is truly and fully healed regardless of it "feeling fine".

Hope that helps.

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It does. I hope I can do straight line stuff by month 4 and I'll keep it to that until 12 months. I just don't want to risk it again. Not worth it.

Day 5 - Feeling much better. Can walk around carefully. Still doing ice and elevation most of the day, just trying to get the swelling down, I've taken the dressings off, so it looks pretty good. Some numbness in my leg, which they said was fairly common.