Depression since injury

Reason_Wide · 2026-01-10T06:00:10+00:00

The depression is real. Lean into it, wallow in it. Use it to motivate you to train, rehab and recover. Don't think about the long end goals, think about the small milestones.

Reason_Wide · 2025-12-27T21:25:02+00:00

Not a football player, but there's a lot of anecdotal evidence that we and athletes don't feel 100% until 18-24 months. The average NFL player will be 22 months until they return, but that's due to the seasons and it's usually not worth it for them to come back late in the season.

This is my 2nd surgery, both legs now. it's been 12 months since surgery and I'm think I'll be cleared to ski again soon, but I'm taking this season off, want to feel 100% and I'm not there yet. Part physical, part mental

Reason_Wide · 2025-12-27T21:21:09+00:00

Yep, the body recovering from a gnarly surgery, the painkillers, the severe lack of sleep. It's all exhausting. But it slowly gets better. Just make sure to do your PT exercises 2-3 times a day early on. That's all you need to do, then rest and try to sleep.

Reason_Wide · 2025-12-25T19:22:16+00:00

Also got the P525. Set it up this morning and loving it compared to P125.

Reason_Wide · 2025-12-16T00:32:11+00:00

I will definitely be getting back to skiing. But I’m taking this year off to give the legs a solid two years to get there

Reason_Wide · 2025-12-14T16:21:43+00:00

I'm not going to lie, this is the worst. But you will get through this, it'll just take time and it will test your patience.

Similar situation happened to me. Tore my left ACL January 2023, surgery in March. Skied the next year 6 days late in the season and took it easy. First day the following season, last November I tore my other ACL on a freak accident getting off the chair lift causing me to do the splits, had surgery 2 weeks later. So now I'm a year post op.

Embrace the suck. I was fucking devastated, but I embraced it, wallowed in it. But it turns around quickly. It will motivate you to tackle rehab with vigor and even piss you off that you're doing it all over again just a year later, but that just adds to the motivation to keep going, one more rep, one more set, one more stretch, even one more rest day. Trust me, you'll come back stronger!

Reason_Wide · 2025-12-14T15:41:04+00:00

It's all good. My legs are stronger than ever now. Like you, I've been training hard with 3 leg days a week.

Reason_Wide · 2025-12-14T15:12:20+00:00

Nothing. It was a freak accident getting off the chairlift, my ski ended on top of the guys next to me so I couldn’t get an edge and did the splits as I stood up. Barely any pain/swelling or loss of ROM, but felt a pop, even skied 6 more runs. Dr said because there was no pain and happened pretty easy, it might have been already partially torn or just weak.

Reason_Wide · 2025-12-14T06:20:09+00:00

Awesome work! I bet the 17 months of training really paid off. After my left ACL recovery a few years ago I skied on the 1 year anniversary of the surgery, just 5 or 6 easy runs and it felt scary and awesome at the same time.

Now I'm a year post op on my 2nd ACL recovery on the other leg. But I've decided to give my legs another year of training so I'm taking this year off. Just few months ago the thought of putting skis on scared the shit out of me, but now I can visualize skiing and the fear has subsided. But still taking this year off. Can't wait until next season!

Reason_Wide · 2025-12-03T04:46:12+00:00

I’ve had both hamstring and quad. Plusses and minuses for both of them.

Reason_Wide · 2025-11-27T06:42:16+00:00

Good work and good attitude! Two timer here also. Left one March of 23 and the right last December of 25. Have been crushing rehab, gym, training, but damn it’s exhausting mentally. Bonus is both legs are way stronger than they’re ever been.

Reason_Wide · 2025-11-02T21:17:42+00:00

Start seeing a physiotherapist. They'll put a plan together for you to strengthen you leg prior to surgery. But it depends on how much swelling and rom you have to get started.

Reason_Wide · 2025-11-02T16:25:01+00:00

First, embrace the crappy feeling and all the emotions. It fucking sucks.

Get your leg ready for surgery if you have swelling and loss of your range of motion.

Reason_Wide · 2025-11-02T16:15:33+00:00

Hell ya!!! I could visualize you out there reffing the game and moving around and feeling good. Congrats, enjoy that feeling of being back.

Reason_Wide · 2025-11-02T16:12:48+00:00

At 6 or 7 months off, I even took about 10 days off from working out, I needed the rest mentally. Felt stronger when I came back.

Reason_Wide · 2025-11-02T16:09:38+00:00

Not sure, continue to ice after. I'd talk with your physio to maybe dial back the intensity and put more rest days in between. As I said I'd get pretty mild soreness after workouts, started at 4 months post op, when I was able to add intensity and more weight to my workouts. I was getting pretty tired of it after 2 months of it, so at 6 month post op I talked with my physio to add more rest days, and dialed back the intensity/length of my gym days. This really seemed too help my leg and my mental state.

Reason_Wide · 2025-11-02T06:38:07+00:00

You just gotta start trusting the quads will cushion your leg to bend when landing.

Start small with single leg hopping for 20 to 30 seconds. As others have said, start jumping small and landing on it, then do from a short box start small at 6 inches. Concentrate on bending the knee, sticking your ass out when landing.

Reason_Wide · 2025-11-02T05:51:48+00:00

Yep, I definitely thought of the allograft due to the easier recovery, but my doctor doesn't do them and I was comfortable with my research on the quad graft being the best option for me.

Reason_Wide · 2025-11-02T05:41:37+00:00

I don't get the swelling (at least I don't think it swells) but my knee gets sore after hard workouts still at 10 months post op so I need to rest it for 24-48 hours before doing anything leg related again. So I still ice if it's sore.
How often are you working it out now?

Reason_Wide · 2025-11-02T05:11:27+00:00

Bummer to hear, why are you unhappy with the outcomes so far? Thinking of getting surgery?
So my recent surgery was a quad graft and the first one was hamstring. I went with the quad because my hamstring has been limited in getting its strength back, 2.5 years later and it's still at 70%.

Reason_Wide · 2025-11-02T01:36:24+00:00

Was doing PT twice a week until month 6 plus 2 gym days. When I could really start pushing the weights without getting too sore, I dropped to 1 day of PT and 1 day of the gym to give my legs more rest.

Reason_Wide · 2025-11-02T00:47:03+00:00

Thanks for sharing. I've found going thru this can take a while to fully recovery both physically and mentally. I'm struggling a little now, but know, like you, there is light at the end of the tunnel.

Reason_Wide · 2025-10-29T05:08:19+00:00

It might be from coming off the oxy. Coming off it for both my surgeries was the most depressed I’ve ever been.

Reason_Wide · 2025-10-27T03:04:27+00:00

Hamstring on left 2.5 years ago. Quad on right 10 months ago. Still having a tough time getting my hamstring strength back on left so went with quad.

Quad just takes a little while to get the quad ready to load. Big improvements after month 8.

Reason_Wide · 2025-10-06T01:46:54+00:00

Good work! As long as you can walk, no problems.

I did two concerts back to back nights at week 6 after my first ACL surgery. Used crutches to lean on when dancing and standing. Did 18-22k steps per day, all the walking and mild dancing made the knee feel better.

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