re: OT orthos: ACL tear question

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I tore my ACL and did everything (pick up, intramurals, p90x, working out) on it for 8 months after a "pop" without soreness. If your thighs are strong enough, you won't feel much pain unless it moves unnaturally. It's not a bone or joint or nerve so you can live without it and not feel pain.

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Man, my experience was much different. If I stood up the wrong way, it would pop again and have that acl tear feeling all over again, and that was excruciating.

I tore mine halfway through a spring semester and waited until after the semester to have the surgery, and I couldn't do anything that involved lateral movement on that knee during the time before the surgery, or it would pop again. Thinking about it makes me tense up.

I know that different people have different degrees of tears, and my meniscus had already been torn for a few years from a high school injury. Your thigh very well could've been much stronger than mine too

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If your thighs are strong enough, you won't feel much pain unless it moves unnaturally. It's not a bone or joint or nerve so you can live without it and not feel pain. However, the longer you go being active, the worse damage you will do to the muscles and other ligaments and joints that are working overtime to support the lack of an ACL (unless you've got hella thighs)

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interesting... all this resonates. thanks