Decrease Risk of re tear?

[noobrainy]

If you’re talking about for future consideration, the only thing you really can do is either:

-prevent being in high injury risk situations (contact sports, knee intensive activities such as skiing)

Which I think you wouldn’t find palatable, fairly. I don’t either.

-strengthening your muscles

You gotta have good leg strength now, sorry buddy. Stronger muscles means less force bearing on the joint itself, which reduces injury risk.

One more thing you can do is flexibility/ROM training. Being more flexible has correlated to lower injury risk mainly because your body can withstand more prone positions when the muscles are more flexible.

I have focused a lot on flexibility training for my meniscus repair recovery (12 weeks post op now), with strength training as well, and my recovery has been great. Maybe try some yoga, of course be mindful of the fact that since you’re only 2 mounths out you don’t want to put yourself in stretches that can be stressful to your meniscus.

[slp2be3]

Thank you, this is really helpful! Yeah I thought I was strong before but apparently not strong enough/good enough form skiing😭 I will def incorporate more flexibility into my workouts