Everyday, I question if this is the right track I am supposed to be on! Fingers crossed!
The "track" being whatever the Australian tendon clinician expert says (versus just doing things on my own like the physician assistant and first physical therapist said). Her diagnosis is much different from what every one else has said - which have been tendonitis, tendinopathy, Hoffa's fat pad impingement. Then again the treatments for those things have not been working for me. Her taping is the first thing to alleviate most of the front of the knee pain and indicates that it is not the tendon (didn't quite want to call it patellofemoral syndrome either), combine that with their cutting edge research (the Sports and Exercise Medicine Research Centre pumps out lots of published peer-reviewed articles), I hope she is the one who is right! I would love to know how long this plan will take, when will we move into quad stuff or when should I resume ACL rehab stuff and should it be with a physical therapist. Hopefully I can get these questions answered. I just worry about more quad atrophy. Here is her suggested rehab. Just three moves. I'll admit I add in some single leg balancing on a towel, single leg lifts with a 4 pound ankle weight and quad sets. She said I can do whatever cardio doesn't aggravate the knee, so that is walking, biking and elliptical right now. I try to do it as often as I can (or the knee allows) because it uses the quad. I go up stairs two at a time with the operative leg and I try to get out of a chair with only the operative leg so that quad stays alive. The random crying has subsided for now, so that is a relief. I'm not used to being so emotional.
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AuthorA 45 year old active female who tore her ACL in January 2017 (at the age of 40). Reconstructive surgery in February 2017 with bone-patellar tendon-bone autograft. Archives
November 2022
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