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Old 12-03-2014, 03:22 AM   Topic Starter
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I tore my ACL.
5 years ago.

I collapsed on a soccer field, definite pain in my knee. I struggled walking and limped for two weeks. I couldn't afford an MRI at the time.

Two weeks later. Pain had gone away, I could walk without a difficulty.

A year goes by. I can run, but can't play sports.

Two years go by, I can play sports.

Three years. I play sports, work out, run half marathons, Tough Mudders, etc. Without a knee brace.

Finally went in to see a sports doctor today. He told me I tore my ACL 5 years ago, and that I've been doing all of this activity on a torn ACL. Holy shit.

Says he just recommends an MRI and a few weeks of therapy to test it out. At that point, I've already built muscle back up and I'm perfectly functional, so no surgery seems needed.

Has anybody else done this? I can't help but think this is absurdly unusual...
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Old 12-03-2014, 03:39 AM   #2
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Lucky you, I guess! I hope there are no complications but at this point, it seems unlikely if you can do all that stuff with no pain or problems.
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Old 12-03-2014, 03:53 AM   #3
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The physician himself said it was highly unusual.

I'm basically Wolverine, right?
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Old 12-03-2014, 05:22 AM   #4
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No, you didn't magically repair your ACL. It is still torn. You have just built up the supporting muscles to a point that you can function without it. Good luck as you get older and keeping these muscles strong enough to support the joint becomes harder and harder.
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Old 12-03-2014, 05:55 AM   #5
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No, you didn't magically repair your ACL. It is still torn. You have just built up the supporting muscles to a point that you can function without it. Good luck as you get older and keeping these muscles strong enough to support the joint becomes harder and harder.
This all true.

I tore my ACL when I was 22. I waited 2 years, then had knee reconstruction surgery. It turned out my ACL and PCL were both completely shredded. If you don't need the surgery, that's awesome, because the surgery and subsequent recovery is far more painful than the original injury.
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Old 12-03-2014, 06:31 AM   #6
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No, you didn't magically repair your ACL. It is still torn. You have just built up the supporting muscles to a point that you can function without it. Good luck as you get older and keeping these muscles strong enough to support the joint becomes harder and harder.
If you could walk on it two weeks after, it's a small or partial tear. Your not putting weight on it if its torn completely; there's basically no stability in your knee. Once the inflammation passed he was ok. I completely tore my ACL, partial MCL and some damage to medial meniscus and had to be helped off. I tried to put weight on it.. no way.

No point in getting surgery to fix a partial tear. Even if your semi-competitive in sports, might as well wait for it to tear complete. It wont unless there is a traumatic event to the area.
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Old 12-03-2014, 07:00 AM   #7
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Had the ACL surgery for my right knee in 1989. They still opened your knee up wide to do that surgery. I have two big scars on that knee but it feels great and no problems with it.
A few years later I tore the ACL in my left knee playing football. I didn't know how bad till I turned 40 and had a MRI for knee pain after a summer of volleyball. Turns out I had Broken leg and a torn meniscus, plus the ACL. I decided to have it fixed and they did all that surgery with a scope in my knee.
Went from two huge scars to four tiny holes....Amazing..
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Old 12-03-2014, 08:35 AM   #8
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If you could walk on it two weeks after, it's a small or partial tear. Your not putting weight on it if its torn completely; there's basically no stability in your knee. Once the inflammation passed he was ok. I completely tore my ACL, partial MCL and some damage to medial meniscus and had to be helped off. I tried to put weight on it.. no way.

No point in getting surgery to fix a partial tear. Even if your semi-competitive in sports, might as well wait for it to tear complete. It wont unless there is a traumatic event to the area.
You are incorrect, sir, although I understand why you think that.

I completely tore my ACL and my PCL. I had to be carried off the softball field, and it hurt like a mother****er. A few days later I could walk on it, but my knee was very unstable. I couldn't jog or run on it. It would occasionally bend the wrong way when I was just walking on it, and when that happened it would hurt like hell and swell up for about 4 days.

Based upon his description, I agree that Direckshun's ACL is probably partially torn. But I am living proof that you can walk on a completely torn ACL. I just learned to walk carefully and never make a sharp turn while walking. (By the way, it sucks to have to live like that.)

Before my surgery, my doctor thought my ACL was partially torn for the reasons you stated. He had to open up my knee to figure out it was completely torn, and the 90 minute surgery turned into a 4 1/2 hour surgery. My doctor knows a little about ACLs, as he was the team physician for the Chiefs for a couple of decades (Dr. Jon Browne). He had done thousands of ACLs before he did mine.
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Old 12-03-2014, 08:14 AM   #9
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The physician himself said it was highly unusual.

I'm basically Wolverine, right?
It happened to my cousin. Only a few years later he had to have surgery as he didn't heal right. You lucked out.
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Old 12-03-2014, 09:24 AM   #10
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The physician himself said it was highly unusual.

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Old 12-03-2014, 04:38 AM   #11
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Na, once you reach a certain age and there is no real reason for you to get it fixed, you'll get the option of just living with it, especially if it isn't bothering you.

The doc is just going to suggest you keep your quad, calf, and hamstring strong because those are your reinforcement areas and as long as you keep those in shape it shouldn't give you much trouble outside of a few aches sometimes whenever a cold front comes through.
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