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    Re: Partial ACL tear - no surgery

    The ACL does NOT provide any direct structural support to the knee joint. What it does is send information about load and angular velocities to the brain so that the brain can then send messages to the muscles to support the knee during activity.
    So if the partial tear is enough to reduce those connections to the brain the knee will feel more unstable. If you have done a lot of side to side movement rehab and change or direction etc and this has produced no results in terms of feeling more in control then perhaps you will need a reconstruction in time (mainly as you will probably reinjure and rupture it). It's a hard call - I am in favor of leaving what's still attached, attached as this something to connect to the brain. But then at a high level of sport like football that may not be enough to play at that level with confidence. The original poster was in 2007 so I am not sure if they will respond to this still.

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    Re: Partial ACL tear - no surgery

    thanks for the reply.

    yea, pretty disheartening to have the ACL partially torn, and 2 months of rehab is not doing much at all.
    Just Tuesday, I did a pivot test to check its stability, and it failed miserably.

    I do notice if I concentrate heavily, and if I know what's coming, then I can hold the knee fine.
    but otherwise, it just feels kinda weird. (and it crashes once a while... completely knocking off my balance.)

    I am worried about further injuries damaging the Wikipedia reference-linkMeniscus, which as of right now, are still in good shape.

    I keep telling myself that rehab can bring it back to strength.
    but I guess I have been disappointed with the results so far...

    Guess I will try for another month first. and see where that leads.

    any other advices, or recommended exercises will be very much appreciated. thanks.

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