Thanks for your replies. Sorry I didn't check back sooner. I am 5 weeks post op from my acl recon with my quadriceps tendon. I will admit that this recon has been the most painful which I did expect. I still have some swelling but the knee feels pretty good. I ride my stationary bike for about 1 hour every day and do lots of quad sets. My quad is still weak but it's getting stronger. My doc wants me on crutches for 6 weeks because I also had an osteochondral allograft. So my exercises are limited right now because I can't bear much weight for another week.

For roycar,

I am nothing but a fearless idiot on skis. I do things I know I shouldn't do like ski through trees and jump over giant logs. By no means am I hypermobile or so-called double jointed. My ortho gets mad at me all the time telling me that I can only be put back together so many times before my joints fall apart. I am his only 4-time acl recon patient. He also tells me that I should seriously consider giving up skiing but in my opinion that's just dumb. Skiing is what I love and if I have stop and get a knee replacement in 10 years so be it. I will not have my acl's done again if something happens to them. I do wear custom knee braces when I ski which do help with limiting the hyperextension but I tore one my acl's while wearing them. There were a couple of times when I was feeling over-confident and decided not to wear the knee braces and sure enough I tore my acl on the moguls (the one I just had done). The good news is that with me around my ortho will never suffer from lack of business.

BTW, I also have a labrum tear in my shoulder from when I misjudged a landing but I can live with that right now.