Partial ACL tear - no surgery

[glog1066]

I suppose the essential questions are can I :

a) go back to a near normal knee without surgery but with physio
b) can i get back to some sort of level of playing football without surgery

The Dr/specialist at the hospital seemed confident and kept say that I don't need surgery to get back to what I want.

hi there im new to this forum and have viewed your post, i know you had the problem a while ago but im wondering how your knee is, the reason im asking is im goining through exactly what you did i have a partial tear to my right acl and dont know weather to push for surgery or try the physio route, i did this playing football and would love to get back playing again, many thanks russ

[mouk786]

hi there im new to this forum and have viewed your post, i know you had the problem a while ago but im wondering how your knee is, the reason im asking is im goining through exactly what you did i have a partial tear to my right acl and dont know weather to push for surgery or try the physio route, i did this playing football and would love to get back playing again, many thanks russ

Hi

Its been ages since that post

Effectivley I rehabbed hard and got the strengh back up in my knee. I amanged to play 5 a side football for about a year - playing upto 2 games a week sometimes with no problems.

The knee itself wasnt bad, no pain and fairly stable but not as rock solid a joint as my normal knee

unfortunatley after about a year of playing i somehow managed to tear the rest of the ACL whilst twisting.

I have since had the ACL reconstruction and the knee feels more solid, although I managed to tear some cartialge as well which has caused me more problems

so my advise is push for the surgery if you want to play footy again.

[glog1066]

hi thanks for the speedy reply, you sound like youve had a tough time, i think after speaking to a few people including you i think surgery will be the best option for me,if they will do it of course, thanks very much for yiur help, cheers russ

[John Ross]

Let us know how you got on. Any kind of future sporting life (contact or non-contact) suggests you should have surgery...