Quote Originally Posted by physiobob View Post
You can't go from rest back to full playing. Your physio should be able to offer you a graded approach to returning to full fitness which should include drills that relate to football. Most meniscal issues don't need surgery. Also most meniscal injuries take 24hrs to swell post damage so if that original injury swelled up quickly, mins or hrs, then it probably wasn't from the meniscus.

Any laxity in your cruciate ligaments? Did the MRI show that the ACL and PCL are intact and normal?
The scan reports said that only my pattelar tendon was damaged and my Wikipedia reference-linkmeniscus(median) was damaged, but i do remember my ortho telling me(after seeing the scan himself) that my ACL was damaged but on examining CLINICALLY he said that it was fine, i also asked the physio after that and he told me that IF my ALF was indeed damaged i would be limping and there would be "giving out" of the knee which i have never encountered.......