Have you ever Torn your ACL?
 

I was playing basketball lastnight and came down funny on my left knee. my knee bent all crazy and i heard a loud popping sound. I hit the ground instantly and started crying. that was the worst pain ive ever felt in my life. i think i may have torn my ACL. Has anyone ever torn their ACL in a knee and ever returned to playing contact sports at full force again?

Reminds me of Friday Night Lights. My condolences, man. Hopefully the doctors can maybe fix you up to a point where you can play basketball again, but I doubt you'll be able to go full force again unless there have been some medical advances in this area recently.

Also, who's the chick in your signature? Hot damn.

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i never have, but i used to ski race and most of my friends have. its very common and you can usually return to 100%.

yes, blew out my right acl completely, was not even connected to the lower leg any more. had it repaired, yes repaired...University of Pittsburgh Medical Center did it and I was in therapy the next DAY and it has not bothered me since.

A friend of mine tore his while snowboarding. He ended up having surgery. Actually has some of the ligaments and tendons in his knee replaced from a donor cadaver. A little freaky, but he seems to be 100% now.

I've had 2 ACL reconstructions and from what you described, it appears you may have torn it. I'd like to tell you that it'll all be fine, but its been quite a frustrating road for me. Having played college ball, basketball is my passion and has always been my main form of excercise. I first tore mine in 98 and it happened much the way you described your incident. I had it reconstructed using a graft from my patella tendon on the same knee. It took me about a year to rehab and that was with me not being real diligent with the rehab. It was frustrating trying to play ball again, I literally lost almost all my jump and speed.

About a year after the rehab, I re tore the acl on the same knee. At this point I gave up ball for four years as I just didn't want to go through the surgery again. I just made sure any excercise I did didn't involve lateral movement and I was fine. Last year the same knee buckled on me bad just doing some light excercise and I decided to get the acl reconstructed again. This time I got an allograft (acl from a cadaver) and the surgery went well and I was doing an aggressive rehab and moving along twice as fast as post surgery before. After 5 months I was playing light haf court bball and very happy with my knee strength. However, in Jan of this year after 7 months of rehab, I tried my first full court bball game and had 2 large pieces of cartlidge break off.

Its never been the same since, I had it scoped in April to remove the pieces, but its been painful all summer. It pisses me off to think that I may never be able to play ball again, but I'm close to coming to that resolution. If you did end up tearing your acl and you opt for surgery, try and have the allograft procedure done. They've made huge advancements in this surgery over the last decade and if you work at it you can recover 100% within six months. I'm assuming your knee is very swollen hard to walk on right now?

YARGH! No sir, but I be down with OPP

The one guy i knew who tore his acl in high school, was never the same player he was before the injury. He lacked the explosiveness he used to have. The end result was him going to a low division 1 school for baseketball.

Tore mine playing football when I was 17. It healed a 100%. Didn't have surgery. Was put in a cast from hip to toe. Played 3 more years of football and 17 years of hockey. Let it heal totally. I waited 3 months till I rehabed it.

It can never heal 100% because a torn acl will never grow back. It is possible to not have surgery on a partially torn acl if you strengthen your leg muscles around it and wear a brace. I have a buddy who completely tore his and didn't have surgery and is able to get by with a brace, but he has big quads and hamstrings that give him the support.

Basketball seems to draw this injury as much as football does, which is surprising to me. Sorry to hear that mal, hope it turns out to be a false alarm.

my doctor was the doctor for the miami dolphins. i went trough ACL reconstruction and 9 months of therapy. I was able to go back to any sport he did a great job however you will have to use a brace mine costs 700 bucks but it allows me to do anything.

basketball, voleyball, baseball i can even do football but just did not want to because i was happy with all other sports.

however he did the athletes reconstruction where the ACL replacement is stronger than regular ACL replacement. regular replacement users hamstring tendon. mine was patela tendon.

you will end up with a big scar on your right knee but that is not the actuall surgery. everything is done through arthroscopic devices.

http://www.athleticadvisor.com/Injur...acl_repair.htm

good luck man

motocross racing causes alot of ACL tears also.

my ACL was torn along with a tibea plateau fracture when a uhaul truck hit me, doctor fixed the ACL and put a steel plate and 6 screws in to hold my broken knee together, was in physical therapy 10 days later, for the next 4 months. Man, was it ever painful.