hi, i’m doing a project for my final grade about tearing an acl…if anyone has stories or any other info feel free to post, thanksss
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hi, i’m doing a project for my final grade about tearing an acl…if anyone has stories or any other info feel free to post, thanksss
i tore my acl last year and it hurt really bad. i couldn’t dance for a year and i thought everything was over.
My sister tore her acl once. Sucked really bad and is and injury that takes you out for a long time. Seeing that happen makes me super sub-conscience about my knees. Whenever i feel a pop or a twinge of pain i think, what if it happended to me. I would be from biking for a long time, would i ever recover fully? Would I ever get to the same skill set i have now? Scary injury…
tearing ur acl looks like it sucks. alot. ive never tore mine and i hope i never do. im just wondering what they do for surgery. like what do they do? do they sew it back together or glue it or what?
I have no experience with ACL injuries – I have been very lucky – I have a friend who broke her ankle so severely that she, for all intents and purposes, severed her foot. Any long term rehabilitation is sure to be painful, and frustrating, causing the person to wonder if they’ll ever be whole again. Good luck!
I tore my ACL last march. I missed the whole spring season that followed that game, and the whole fall season for my high school. I have been playing soccer since I was about 7 and it was so hard to sit and watch, knowing I couldn’t play. My surgery to reconstruct the ACL and stitch the tears in my meniscus was in April and by November of last year I was close to playing soccer. I was still having problems with it however and ended up going back to the Dr. many times. He told me I had bursitis,which is an inflammation near the hamstring tendon he cut. I got a cortisone shot, which helped, and went back to physical therapy, but I was still having problems. I went back to the doctor about a month ago and he ordered an MRI and a nerve conduction test to see what was going on. When the results came back, he saw on the MRI that I had something called a Cyclops Lesion. It is a very rare form of scar tissue that grows around the ACL and only about 3% of people who have the surgery ever develop it. I had another surgery 3 weeks ago to get rid of it and fix a tear in my meniscus that did not heal correctly from the first surgery. I am currently recovering from the second surgery and in a few weeks I am hoping to be back to playing soccer. Many people do not realize the mental and emotional tole this injury takes on you as well as the physical. Tearing my ACL and recovering from it, was extremely painful and the hardest thing I have ever had to do, both mentally and physically.
What can be done to prevent the tearing of the ACL in athletes… what preventive measures exist?
I tore my ACL last March. I missed my entire spring season and basically my entire high school season. I had my surgery in April, but exactly a month later I had to go back in to have a second operation because I got an infection in my knee and they had to clean it out. Going through this was extremely difficult, not just because I felt pain emotionally and physically, but because a huge part of my life was suddenly gone. I had been playing soccer ever since I could remember, so to have to be put in a brace and told no was devastating. There were definetly some moments where I wasn’t sure if I would continue playing soccer again, or that I would ever be the same player that I was. Even now, even after I am fully cleared and getting back to where I was, I still occasionally have those doubts and question myself. But when I am out there on that field, I am truly happy and realize that is the place I’m meant to be. Tearing my ACL was without a doubt the hardest thing I have ever gone through, but if I hadn’t done it, I don’t think I would have ever worked as hard or have as much faith in myself as I do now. So while I do never wished that I had torn in, I am still grateful for it for making me look inside myself and see what I am truly made out of.
I have never torn my ACL, but from what I hear it is extremely painful. It is a long recovery and there are numerous surgeries that you need to go through before you can go back to participating in strenuous activities. It also prevents you from participating in sports for long periods of time. This can be extremely frustrating, especially for those athletes that are very committed to their sports. It is an injury that I would never want to go through, and one that I hope that I will never have to experience.