Recover fully from my knee injury

I’m retiring this goal because I think I have recovered from my injury, although there are times when my right knee still aches or doesn’t react the way I want it to. I’ve learned more humility from this experience, got to meet a knockout blond physical therapist named Cindy (smiles) and this all helped me learn to take better care of myself. Slowly, I’m realizing that there is a silver lining within every dark cloud in life.

Best advice for anyone about to go under the knife…1) Go to the best surgeon you can find (find out who your local sports professionals go to), 2) go for the allograft (graft from a cadaver), 3) go to the best sports therapist you can (again, find out who your local sports professionals are going to) and WORK, WORK, WORK!! If you’re not making the kind of progress you want to be- switch to someone new! You’re not going to be able to redo this process- so get it right!

Happy to say that after surgery at 14 (soccer) & 17 (retore my minisci running track in the offseason), I was able to make a full recovery and play in the olympic devel. prog. again, and now at 26 I can still play tennis, ski and tax my knees like any other person, all with minimal swelling!

Best of luck!

My knee has been bothering me for the past two days. Maybe it’s because of the humidity in the air. It seems to go well for several weeks, then all of a sudden it cause me grief for a few days. A real hassle!

Even though my knee is recovering nicely, the many weeks of relative inactivity over the Summer months has really made itself clear to me after going to the gym last night with my younger son. I am so far behind the strength and endurance levels that I was at late last winter. I’ve also gained more weight since injuring the knee, surprise, surprise.

This being said, I want to thank all the people here on 43T who have inspired me and I want to seriously get myself into decent shape, combined with smart lifestyle choices that I entered under another goal. I know that I have a long road ahead of me and that it will be far from easy to accomplish. But with your support and for so many reasons, I want to do this for myself!!

Today I had a massage therapy treatment and felt great afterwards. My knee is continuing to get stronger and when I do my knee strengthening exercises, now I can do one-legged partial squats with my right leg, which was an impossibility at the beginning of the Summer. My quads are getting much stronger and balancing on one leg is almost as good with my right leg as with my left. Thanks to everyone for cheering me on this goal! :)

My knee is responding to greater exercise and I can feel that it is continuing to heal. I’m about at 85% of normal use now. It was aching two days ago, but most days it doesn’t hurt anymore, that’s a big relief, both physcally and mentally.

We appreciate our bodies more after having to deal with an injury. I hope I can use this knowledge to work out more and do more overall stretching this Fall. Thanks, for the cheers that I have received about this issue in my life.

My knee is finally starting to feel a lot better in the past week. There was a period around the middle of August when I was getting worried, because my knee was still aching whenever I bent it. It’s such a relief not to be in constant pain anymore, seriously!

A friend called last night to ask me to help him put up blinds, so I missed my plan to go to the gym to work out, but we shared a few laughs and got things done fairly quickly.

Yesterday, my knee felt better than it has in weeks! For most of the day I was pain free and it acually felt as if it wasn’t going to give out when I was walking. I was getting a bit depressed about this a few weeks ago. I’m glad to see so much progress now, because it has definitely hampered my fitness goals.

I’m hoping that I will be able to resume my normal activities shortly. The weekend felt like a setback, a lot of soreness and I wasn’t able to sleep well Saturday or Sunday night. It is great to read about the success a lot of the people have on 43T concerning their fitness goals. I am planning on making real progress this Summer as well.