03-10-2024, 07:50 AM
(03-10-2024, 07:36 AM)kruddler link Wrote:Told this story a few times, but hurt my knee, went to the Docs, got scans 'all clear'. Hurt like hell for a fwe days. Couldn't walk properly for a week.
Kept playing sports, hurt it again. Less pain. Didn't go to the docs because ...why....gonna tell me the same thing.
Kept playing sports, hurt it again, this time it was full on, knee completely sideways to the rest of my body, slingshot me over it, peoples eyes popping out of their head watching it as it looked horrorfying. Casually hobbled off. 5 minutes later, no pain at all. Just a bit swollen and hard to flex. Went to the docs, went to the specialist. Yep, did my acl the first time, scans just didn't pick it.
Fast forward 20+ years later, still haven't had surgery. Still active enough, just had to change the way i walk/turn and jump/land etc. Obviously nothing overly strenuous.
But.....i'm more active than others my age and you can't tell i'm missing my ACL (and whatever other damage i have in there as well).
Ran 25km great ocean road ultra half marathon and various other races in good time. Tough Mudder, tough bloke challenge, spartan....all that stuff.
You learn to live without an ACL, its not the end of the world, and yes, overrated.
Some are good, like you were, where you were also able to re-train yourself very successfully, strengthen the right areas, others though the instability can rip their meniscus up completely. Those Winter Olympians are often competing without and ACL, a few medalists among them. The Olympics are just too important to them to miss. They just strap it up and stabilise it the best way they can and retain themselves for the competition. The ACL rupture is common amongst those extreme competitors.
Reckon the pain Doc may have had by half time was the meniscus. Seems he had no idea he had an ACL rupture as he was still running around and got 6 possessions, 5 marks, for the qtr like nothing had happened.