One awesome sign that this new rehab/taping idea is working is that finally - for the first time during this entire rehab - I HAVE SORE QUADS!!!
The good kind of sore! DOMS - delayed onset muscle soreness. I never really got that soreness even in the first 3 months of rehab when things were "going well." When you have significant anterior knee pain, it will shut off your quad as a protection mechanism. I learned how to use my glutes in those early days. Even when I was leg pressing 100 pounds with my operative leg at day 90. It was all butt! Now that the taping lifts that pain enough for me to do proper weights, I am able to bump up my weights nearly every week. The soreness it the muscle fibers breaking down which is needed to rebuilt. Some other great signs of improvement: I've done a few walks on the snow (hard packed snow trails) which in the past has left me in pain. So far no ill effects, maybe a little swelling! I'm terribly out of shape so it's slow, and I use spikes on my shoes and poles for balance. Lastly, I did my longest walk to date this weekend (day 32 of my new rehab/taping plan). 4.5 miles with some hill climbing in there, on a road! Photo: me using a foam roller on my quads! It felt good. Before this was just rolling on thigh bone and did NOT feel good.
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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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