Little trip up..

Over two months out of surgery now and today was a bad day. I was just walking around a lot this weekend so my quad was very sore, but earlier I banged my knee really hard against something and my knee has felt stiff and slightly painful ever since.

I don't know if that is just the soreness or if I had loosened/re-tore my acl but this worries me a great deal as another tear would set me back at least another 8 or 9 months.

I will see my PT this Friday and ask about it but until then I'll just have to sit here and see if the soreness and stiffness go down.

Feeling good at 7 and a half weeks

By this point I am walking pretty much normally. There is still a limp if I'm walking downhill thought simply because that puts a lot of pressure on my quad muscles to push myself back from falling forward. The biggest problem now is how all the muscle on my right leg has atrophied away. Gotta hit that gym hard in the summer to get it back to normal before the next school year.

PT is getting a little better now that I am no longer just stretching and have started strength exercises. Currently I am doing the exercise bike, one legged calf-raises, leg press, and that's about it. I want to start squatting on my own but I may need PT approval for that.

I saw my orthopedic surgeon 4 days ago and he says I am healing quite well and if I don't do anything stupid I should be jogging in about a month. Lets hope it works out, I haven't jogged in almost 3 months now..

Week 5 quick update

So this is week 5 post op for me. Or..5 and a half weeks. But nothing much in the last week or so, I haven't been to PT in like 2 weeks so I have no idea where I should be.

I am completely off the crutches, and can walk close to a normal speed now. Downstairs are still hard without a handrail but upstairs is fine. I haven't been doing any exercise but walking..no stretching either. But I feel my ROM has gone up..can bend it pretty far now.

Overall, it's beginning to get hardly noticeable, this is great!