Ruptured acl, torn mcl and lcl, damaged meniscus both sides and refused surgery

[Wee chris]

Hi, thanks for the reply,
I'm just back from physio, they seemed confused by the fact that I had not been offered surgery.
On tests I have nearly full range of motion, but have problems straitening the leg with toes pulled back but not pointed.
Can perform single leg press with above expected weight for a person to be discharged so leg strength is not an issue.
In terms of injuries, lateral meniscal tear on horn ?
Grade 2 tear in lcl and mcl, though the mcl seems to have healed fairly well and presents fairly well in tests, the lcl opens a fair bit but the physio has said it is far from the worst she has seen.
My concern isn't so much if I can get by without surgery, the OS has informed me I should be fine to return to competitive weight lifting, where I would squat normally around 300 plus. I can't see that happening safely without surgery.
I'm confused as to what to do. Can I book an appointment to see the surgeon again and try to push for surgery. Dsperately seeking advice. .

[Emanuele]

See what the surgeon says, to me this is not a knee that can so lightheartedly go back to sustain such heavy weights. But I may be completely wrong.

all the best! let us know how your coping!

[Wee chris]

I spoke to the head physio he has indicated that he cannot understand why I have not been offered surgery when my knee is so unstable and the dangerous position that places me in my sport.
He has said he will speak to th surgeon and see if he will offer me surgery. I am not so sure if this will be the matt resolved, but the physio has told me he holds quota bit of weight as he is a specialist in complete knee dislocations which I had.
I can only hope tha this will at least get the ball rolling again when it comes to surgery.
I just can't understand why the surgeon would suggest this approach to me.
On the plus side I had horrible, violent shaking in my knee when tying to straighten my leg, which completely slides the physio but happened to see my osteopath after and he took around 30 seconds to find the problem and a corrected it immediately, a lot easier than I thought.

[Emanuele]

As I said before, it sounded too strange to me that you could get on just with rehabilitation for such an injury... quite curious to know what your osteopath diagnosed and did on your knee, if you don't mind to share, as I'm an "osteopath-to-be" and that has caught my attention

all the best

[Wee chris]

I don't mind sharing at all, Brian my osteo had lay me on my back, pushed my leg bent to the side applied pressure on thin side of thhip and groin area and asked me to straighten my leg, that did the trick. I didn't get a full explanation off him I was just happy I could move the leg properly, what I did gather was that it was something to do with where the nerve crossed th hip at the front of the leg and groin area, it was not allowing the muscles of the leg to fire, but only when the toes were pulled back, with throes pointed I could extend th eg fine. Very strange one indeed, but Brian is very good.

[Emanuele]

cool stuff, maybe he did a manouver to free the femoral nerve up... well done and thanks for sharing