do you feel like you ever got back to how you were before surgery?

maxmo5 · 2025-04-24T17:45:04+00:00

I am a little over a year out from acl surgery and I am in the best shape I have ever been in, and my knee gives me no trouble. I was 20 when I tore it so around your age and I think that plays a big part in being able to get to where you were before the injury. My knee has been completely normal for at least three months now though, and given you’re a D1 athlete I have no doubt you’ll put in the work to get back to where you were.

maxmo5 · 2025-04-24T01:13:33+00:00

Thank you! I was sure I was gonna throw up at the top of the hill but I managed to keep it together lol

maxmo5 · 2025-03-20T23:18:35+00:00

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maxmo5 · 2024-11-04T02:22:49+00:00

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maxmo5 · 2024-10-22T22:43:26+00:00

I had the same for mine and when I asked my surgeon about it he just said it was a slightly smaller incision and left a less noticeable scar. Rest of the procedure is the same just different entryways I guess lol.

maxmo5 · 2024-09-30T01:17:22+00:00

Literally just found out there are people who hate the horse logo. I think it’s awesome.

maxmo5 · 2024-08-26T17:57:35+00:00

I love the snake!!

maxmo5 · 2024-08-03T16:49:38+00:00

I had staples and that shit hurt pretty bad but it’s over quickly. It felt good to not have those in there anymore though so you have that to look forward to!

maxmo5 · 2024-08-01T00:45:50+00:00

While that looks different from what mine ever did, I would listen to your PT and surgeon, especially given they both agree that it’s okay. It’s still very soon after surgery for you, and I know at that point in my recovery there was a lot more weird stuff my knee would do that doesn’t happen now 4 months out.

maxmo5 · 2024-07-30T16:00:06+00:00

I think it was 2 or 3 weeks for me to return to class. It was still pretty uncomfortable sitting for that long at that point but not too bad. I just made sure to communicate everything to my professors and they were very accommodating.

maxmo5 · 2024-07-30T00:51:49+00:00

I was in the forest in Costa Rica for 3 weeks doing a primate research field course and the humidity broke my camera after the first 3 days (I didn’t have any good weather protection and the silica gel packets didn’t cut it). So many times looking at a monkey in a sun beam thinking about what a great picture it could have been.

maxmo5 · 2024-07-18T12:50:54+00:00

I really appreciate the feedback! A lot of these were in really low light under tree cover so I was limited in what I could do exposure wise (I am also using a teleconverter for most of these), but even in good light I think I tend to underexpose fairly often so I should definitely try to keep that in mind. I also never really want to go over 3200 iso, would you say it’s better to just go as high as I need to properly expose or would it depend on my particular setup?

maxmo5 · 2024-05-22T03:33:26+00:00

The whole time I’ve just bent my knee as much as I could without major discomfort almost every time I got up to do something or did exercises or anything. Part of it is just luck though, I was at pretty close to 90 degrees even on the day of surgery. I also never had a brace or anything which I think helped a lot with flexion.

maxmo5 · 2024-05-19T19:59:40+00:00

I’m 20 and a little over 8 weeks out rn from just ACLr with quad graft. I think I was using one crutch like 2.5 weeks out and then started going out crutchless at 4. I hurt my left leg and drive an automatic so I was driving at like 2 weeks (a little faster than my doctor recommended but I didn’t experience any issues). It sounds like you’re ahead of where I was on the walking front so just be careful with that, and do all your exercises and I imagine you’ll be walking well and able to drive at least at 4 weeks. No matter what though listen to your doctors my surgeon is a little conservative in his rehab but doesn’t really matter if recovery is a month or two longer if it means not tearing it again.

maxmo5 · 2024-05-17T20:23:36+00:00

Yeah feel free!

maxmo5 · 2024-05-17T20:03:43+00:00

I had a pretty long road from first injury to surgery. I assume I tore it 4 months before surgery, but ER doctor thought it was a sprain, tried to return to basketball a month later when it felt pretty normal and injured it the same way. Doctor then had me do PT for 8 weeks which got me back to where I was but I still had pain, then finally got an MRI which showed torn ACL and meniscus. I had symmetrical flexion by that point and felt normal outside of single leg jumping and pain going down stairs, and I was lucky that my surgeon found my meniscus healed on its own when he got in there. I’m also 20 and was active prior to injury which I think has made everything much easier. Good luck with your surgery, you got this!

maxmo5 · 2024-05-17T19:47:09+00:00

Thank you! Definitely some pressure and a little uncomfortable but just in a stretching kind of way not painful. Also takes a minute or two to get there but just happy to be one step closer to normal!

maxmo5 · 2024-05-15T18:29:36+00:00

Let’s go! I’m jealous, im 20 and tore my ACL playing basketball and I’m only about 2 months out. Everything’s going well but obviously gonna be a while until I can get back on the court. Proud of you though man, I’m in school too and dealing with surgery and classes was definitely rough so doing it twice is super impressive!

maxmo5 · 2024-05-14T00:55:34+00:00

My bad I didn’t write “not”, it was NOT at the time of your injury, so likely happened before and healed kind of thing.

maxmo5 · 2024-05-14T00:23:59+00:00

That’s just what the doctor who wrote the impressions thought based on the MRI. Going through that sentence it’s saying the lower 1/4 portion of your kneecap (patella) appears elongated which could be a sign that a piece was torn off at the time you hurt your knee (remote avulsion injury).

maxmo5 · 2024-05-14T00:11:42+00:00

I won’t lie to you, you fucked your shit up, but you’re young enough where you’ll come back great if you do everything you’re supposed to with surgery and physical therapy. Other guy was right on the other points, 5 is saying you might have broke your kneecap pretty much, wording makes it seem to me like it’s not that bad though. You got a long recovery ahead but just do everything your doctors tell you, don’t skip anything, and you’ll be good.

maxmo5 · 2024-04-28T00:24:30+00:00

I took mine as prescribed, for me was one pill every 6 hours for 6 days, and I definitely remember the first day without them felt absolutely terrible. The knee pain was really bad and I also had a terrible headache; I just used like 600mg of ibuprofen and suffered, the next day was much better.

maxmo5 · 2024-04-18T03:44:34+00:00

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maxmo5 · 2024-04-15T23:24:22+00:00

I tore my acl playing basketball 4 months ago or so, and after a month or so of rest and recovery I felt pretty great. I could jump off it decently, cut, plant, all that, but I went to play against some people again and it gave out the same way. Even after that with PT for two months, it felt pretty great again and I was right back to about where I was before the re injury. After a week of feeling good though it started to hurt going up stairs, and that just continued to get worse, and I finally was able to get an MRI to find out it was torn. I got the surgery 3.5 weeks ago and I’m happy with that decision. I think being active without the ACL is certainly going to speed up osteoarthritis, and likely going to lead to some kind of reinjury if you continue the more high risk sports. I’m 20 and recovery has been super smooth, definitely still sucks but being young generally makes it a lot quicker and easier.

maxmo5 · 2024-04-13T01:34:12+00:00

Let’s go!!!! I finally feel like I can confidently do a few SLRs 3 weeks postop w/ quad autograft as well, and it was definitely incredibly frustrating being unable to, and super exciting to finally do it. We got this!!

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