Thankyou Alophysio. I have contacted them to see if they know of anyone over here who has completed that program.

I fully understand the limitations of diagnosing and treating an injury online, and I will do everything I can to find someone who will look at it in the right way for a proper assessment but, on the basis that you're online assessment is correct, is there anything particularly I should be doing/not doing in the intervening time before I can find somebody?

I am assuming that I shouldn't do any running etc. and to keep up my stretches, but are there any muscle groups that I should also be trying to build and could it be beneficial/detrimental to do my stretches several times a day rather than just once? I remember the good physio I saw before I went away performed some deep massage of the quads and calves to loosen them up, so is this something that I can maybe even try myself or could I damage it more? And I have 2 final sessions booked with my current physio before he refers me to a consultant so is there anything I should ask him to do? As it stands he will just try some lazer treatment on it as a final approach to see if that works. And finally, is there any benefit in frictioning the ligament myself? I have watched my physio do it a few times and know the area around the joint which is tender, but I don't want to damage it further.

Sorry for the excessive length and volume of my posts by the way. I think about it near enough all the time, but I don't know anyone who I can talk to and would understand what I'm going through, including it would seem a large number of physios here, so I massively appreciate anyone listening to what I have to say. I can't bear to ask the question of whether or not it will ever fully/near-fully recover, but if it does then to say I owe you an even bigger thank you would be a massive understatement.