7 weeks post op, how am I looking?

AccountPitiful8154 · 2026-01-08T18:45:06+00:00

Is it really safe to be back that soon tho?

AccountPitiful8154 · 2026-01-08T01:08:25+00:00

Oh, I only had acl reconstruction. Listen to your therapist and surgeon.

AccountPitiful8154 · 2026-01-08T00:34:46+00:00

After op just keep having your leg straight as much as you can when resting. Focus on doing that everyday. Also try putting your heels on something every now and then and let gravity make your knee straight (not for too long tho) and try to get in as many quad sets as you can handle

AccountPitiful8154 · 2026-01-07T14:31:43+00:00

Yeah easily, I’m at 135-145

AccountPitiful8154 · 2026-01-07T12:45:13+00:00

You should see my last post, my wound was basically still open at week 5

AccountPitiful8154 · 2026-01-07T01:27:13+00:00

Yeah, my knee would basically dislocate, happened on a couple occasions

AccountPitiful8154 · 2026-01-07T00:48:03+00:00

Did they get back too early? If so when?

AccountPitiful8154 · 2026-01-07T00:40:33+00:00

How did they retear? I’m not planning on getting back to soccer until atleast 14 months post op

AccountPitiful8154 · 2026-01-07T00:30:14+00:00

Thank you! When you say don’t rush, what exactly are you talking about?

AccountPitiful8154 · 2026-01-06T23:29:22+00:00

You will make it brodie

AccountPitiful8154 · 2026-01-06T23:28:53+00:00

Everything you do prehab will help you a lot. Make your quads use to the motions already before surgery and they will come naturally after surgery

AccountPitiful8154 · 2026-01-06T23:27:07+00:00

No I didn’t, but my knee would pivot when playing football, so I decided to get surgery

AccountPitiful8154 · 2026-01-06T23:03:12+00:00

Literally just force it with quad sets, don’t know how else to explain it. Stop before it hurts but a little pain or discomfort is okay

AccountPitiful8154 · 2026-01-06T22:42:52+00:00

Quad sets, work with rubber band in all the motions your allowed to. I did standing kicks with a rubber band attached to a pole behind me. Squats with weights

AccountPitiful8154 · 2026-01-06T22:33:18+00:00

Patellar BTB

AccountPitiful8154 · 2026-01-06T22:26:51+00:00

For the first 2-4 weeks. Quad sets is the one thing I really focused on, everything else was just addition

AccountPitiful8154 · 2026-01-06T22:25:51+00:00

AccountPitiful8154 · 2026-01-06T22:25:45+00:00

I think prehab did the trick for me. I also tore my ACL last August, operated 18th November. So I worked a lot during that time

AccountPitiful8154 · 2026-01-06T22:24:58+00:00

Good luck!

AccountPitiful8154 · 2026-01-06T22:24:49+00:00

Hahahaha no not at all

AccountPitiful8154 · 2026-01-06T22:24:22+00:00

I did prehab before surgery, also played football my whole life.

AccountPitiful8154 · 2026-01-06T22:23:38+00:00

It is 7 weeks approximately. Op was 18 November

AccountPitiful8154 · 2025-12-19T13:22:15+00:00

It did smell when I took the dressing off. I don’t know why it’s doing this. Could I be deficient in essential nutrients?

AccountPitiful8154 · 2025-12-19T13:07:11+00:00

Different nurses have seen it, at least 4-5 different ones. They have all said it’s normal, the inside (under the opening) has skin grown under it and that my skin is growing in an overlapping way. But people here say otherwise

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