I was just wondering how everything was going now and if anyone could help me?

I had my ACL and a tear to my medial Wikipedia reference-linkmeniscus repaired last October now - I am now 6 months down the line and have been having significant hamstring problems since Christmas.

Basically Oct - Christmas was spent on a limited physio programme due to the meniscus repair - no squats, no pressure on a bent knee beyond 30 degrees etc.... Then after Christmas I reached my 3 month point and we began to introduce the squats and single leg work.

However since that point I have had problems with my hamstring. To start with I thought that I had just overdone the exercises a little too soon - as I had such tightness post exercise and cramping on anything like hamstring curls that after a session in the ACL class at physio I struggled to do anything the next day at all and even struggled to walk without a limp at times.

Diagnosis 1 - muscle imbalance between quads and hamstrings. Suggested that we adjusted the exercises.

However this did not improved things - in fact what I hadn't realised was that after exercise I was getting bruising appear in a vertical line up the centre of my hamstring from my knee (same place as I had bruising post surgery but this had cleared up before Christmas) and a large lump had formed.

Diagnosis 2 - scar tissue that needed breaking down. So on top of my twice weekly acl physio classes I now began having massages to break down the scar tissue.

However whilst the scar tissue and lump significantly improved after massage, exercise irritated it and caused it to build again. So we removed the exercises that irritated the most - single leg squats, lunges, dip steps, running etc... However it couldn't stay like this forever so we tried to gradually reintroduce exercises. By this point we were at 4-5 months. I got to see the surgeon during this time and he was at a loss as to why and what - he tested my hampstring strength but the whole lot went straight into spasm. He referred me to have an ultra sound but I am still waiting for this.

In the meantime - Diagnosis 3 - nerve tightness and resulting neuro stretches - but still the hamstring is a problem.

I am now 6 months in, and over the last couple of weeks have tried to just push myself forward through accepting the pain and discomfort and trying to do the exercises - but to no avail. I work in sport and have always played sport - so the lack of recovery has really started to get me down. Now the physio is now back to the muscle imbalance diagnosis - lower back perhaps this time so a new lot of exercises.

In terms of ongoing symptoms - hamstring cramps very easily doing curl type exercises, numbness where scar tissue lump continues to build on lower hamstring, recurring bruising (although significantly lighter that in the past), general throbbing of the hamstring whilst at rest, nagging right up to my bottom, lack of strength depsite daily exercise (the squats are not getting any easier) and the same exercise still continue to aggrivate it - single leg squats, dip steps, and running for more than 1 minute.

Does anyone have any suggestions? Will the ultra sound find out what is wrong? Will it just get better over time?

Any help gratefully received.