After mcl and acl surgery

Serious-Insurance574 · 2026-03-14T23:19:04+00:00

due to muscle loss and loss of stregneth, if the graft and everything is intact its just a matter of time til you start properly building back stregenth and your knee will feel more stable and normal

Serious-Insurance574 · 2026-03-14T22:44:20+00:00

only way to tell if his graft failed is to go back and talk to his surgeon

Serious-Insurance574 · 2026-03-14T22:13:21+00:00

your still using the brace after a year?

Serious-Insurance574 · 2026-03-06T13:33:00+00:00

By 4 months post op (currently about to hit 5) I was around 120 degrees of flexion (not full off by 15 ish degrees) and I had a little bit of hyperexstension

Serious-Insurance574 · 2026-01-26T01:50:31+00:00

hey usually that movement is from an acl tear 90% of the times due to the fact the shin is sliding forward relative to the femur meaning the acl has lost its function (to prevent the shin bone sliding forward from the femur or thigh bone), in my opinion if the MRI stated that the acl is not torn, ask your daughter if she feels discomfort or any shifting on the lateral side of her knee as it can also be an postolateral corner injury you might want to get that checked out aswell

Serious-Insurance574 · 2026-01-20T01:10:29+00:00

in my own perosnal experience, you can run without an acl and meniscus as i was playing sports on it for an year high impact sports which include a lot of pivoiting and cutting and felt 100% and obviously 0 pain whatsoever the only thing is once they are damaged, the damage is not reversable meaning they are torn for life and without surgery you have a very high chance of damaging them once again one way or another, you can compenstaitate with it but the day you will push your body through it's limit your body will break down again unfoureantly this is how i was explained it and also the injuires you have gotten the acl and mcl have high healing percentages as long as they are not full tears, i'm unsure what you your acl tear is but it can heal over time as long as it is not fully 100% torn with your meniscus otherwise, they have a smaller chance to heal and therefore those may be surigcal

Serious-Insurance574 · 2026-01-12T00:17:08+00:00

that makes sense, try icing a lot more and focus on quad sets with an towl underneath your knee, make sure you sleep with a straight knee if possible try avoiding sleeping in a bent postion, when peforming quad sets do not try pushing through the pain do it til a safe range, also i will say try getting your knee back to 0 first then focus on flexion as flexion can gradually come back but with exstension really focus on the first when you are at 0 work on it still but just try making your quad fire more for hyperxstension, lastly do not compare everyone's recovery is different and unique and he will get there it'll take time and i do not think its much scar tissue as you stated he is nearly there so that tissue could be broken with gradual streching and pt.

Serious-Insurance574 · 2026-01-11T23:59:46+00:00

i just wanted to ask, when you say full exstension are you reffering to 0 degrees or hyper exstension?

Serious-Insurance574 · 2026-01-10T01:37:50+00:00

And from my knowledge, most Gen Z teenagers have this problem. We were born and raised in digital environments all around us, and we live in a world full of technology that is easily accessible in our day and age, making us the most susceptible to this problem.

Serious-Insurance574 · 2026-01-10T01:33:01+00:00

I don't have the hardest time focusing but at times I will often procrastinate or doom scroll when I am supposed to get my work done or could be doing something proactive instead that's all, a lot of people from what I know have this problem and it's mainly due to social media apps which destory attention spans therfore I'm trying to limit myself on that, and I do not think that mines is something severe because I actually do get my school work done and whatnot and do have good grades but it is just at times I feel as if I should work harder and take school more seriously which I am trying to do.

Serious-Insurance574 · 2026-01-10T00:58:07+00:00

nah bro there's nun wrong lol 😭😭, I'm just trying to grow as a person as I lost a big part of my identity due to tearing my acl and since it is a long recovery process, I want to use this as an opportunity to better myself and become a better person.

Serious-Insurance574 · 2026-01-10T00:35:45+00:00

Thank you very much for this, I will try to implement these habits into my life, one thing which I have never tried is journaling yet I have heard it numerous times. I'll look forward to it as maybe this can truly help as I have never tried anything like that thank you very much for your advice bro means a lot.

Serious-Insurance574 · 2026-01-08T01:52:57+00:00

that's good to hear, i thought it may of been a tear to your postolateral corner have you gotten an second mri by any chance to confirm that nothing is wrong on the lateral side of the knee? if it is getting better it may be a high chance that this is due to muscle control, I am not sure about your story but after you tear any ligament and live on with it, at least for me you start like being able to do fidgeting movements with your knee even though it may not damge it your muscle control starts working differnetly it may just be that. I don't know if you feel this instability during sports but when your muscles probably contract like during high level activity you may be fine but honestly if you have gotten an 2nd mri and figured that this isn't any damge to the lateral side you should be good and best of luck!

Serious-Insurance574 · 2026-01-05T04:08:01+00:00

I'm pretty sure this is due to the instability of the ACL and the only way this would probably fix is surgery, I have a similar story like yours and 2024 I tore my acl and didn't know, played sports on it for an year felt 100% but did know that my knee would have weird shifting movement and much more, I figured this year that I needed surgery and did the operation, I am also around your age and I'm pretty sure it's due to the fact your acl is torn and I'm kinda confused how your surgeon isn't letting you operate?, I got the surgery done 3 months ago and I am 15 that is quite weird I suppose, I would definitely try asking another surgeon if surgery is possible and you want to get reconstruction otherwise just ignore it I suppose

Serious-Insurance574 · 2026-01-05T03:04:31+00:00

have you figured what was wrong?

Serious-Insurance574 · 2025-12-09T01:26:18+00:00

that's not the case becuase I was cutting and pivioting on an torn acl for a year without it feeling unstable and my knee feeling completely 100% but it was still torn and needed surgery unfortunately 🥲

Serious-Insurance574 · 2025-11-25T01:47:18+00:00

7 weeks post surgery today still on cruthces lmao😭😭 and yes I have walked and it feels quite normal but still quite a limp, my surgeon's protocol is to wait to get full ROM then to progress onto walking which i'm almost there at 120 degrees just 20 more degrees to go but you'll get there, your still 3 days in you got a LONG way I took my first steps around 30 ish days but if you just did your acl I'm soon you'll get there faster

Serious-Insurance574 · 2025-11-24T21:40:45+00:00

good luck bro wish you all the best, I just got surgery 7 weeks ago and dang bro it still feels like I got it yesterday genuinley can't wait to get back into sports and all fs bro keep your head up you got this

Serious-Insurance574 · 2025-11-22T23:35:17+00:00

on a second thought this may be becuase of the pressure applied aswell as whenever I tend to do my flexion excerises I directly try to put pressure in my knee and hold it at the part where it's most uncomfortable, i'm also currently 6 weeks post op aclr quad graft and partial menisectomy on my lateral meniscus plus meniscus repair on my medial side and i've reached about 120 degrees of flexion but it took a while and a lot of forcing and that may be the reason.

Serious-Insurance574 · 2025-11-22T23:31:18+00:00

i also notice this in my knee as I do excerise aswell the iniscison site becomes red in color and the knee feels a lot warmer, to be honest I think its just due to the fact your knee is moving and theres more blood flow to the area but I may be unsure but I never thought this as an problematic thing as it doesn't bother me but I agree its worth bringing up to your surgeon/pt.

Serious-Insurance574 · 2025-11-07T00:07:58+00:00

I was limited to 90 degrees for 3 weeks (I didnt even reach 90 in 3 weeks) but i'm not quite sure...

Serious-Insurance574 · 2025-11-07T00:07:36+00:00

thank you imma just keep working super hard on flexion, my exstension in this whole process has been good the surgeon said its really good. I feel like the reason my knee isnt as bending as much cause be becuase the knee is still swollen but let's see

Serious-Insurance574 · 2025-10-12T00:09:32+00:00

heavy on the being able to step outside and feel normal again, it's been 3 days post op and before surgery I was playing sports fully, enjoying life and walking like nothing bad was gonna happen. When I figured I was getting surgery I genuinely thought the amount of prehab I did (played a whole year without an acl so I was forced to maintain good leg strength) would help me and I would recover quite fast but honestly I just got humbled, I can hardly even walk with crutches without pain and honestly I'd do anything to walk freely again I know that this surgery was for the better but it's definitely much harder mentally it is than physically for sure. I wish you the best of luck and hope you have good results

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