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Originally Posted by steel_horse75
I had this surgery in 04 & 05
If jon recovered in 8 days then thats good - i was on crutches for a total of 5months.
My knee locked while playing football (soccer to the US lot) and my cartlidge had torn one side and snapped the other. So they shaved the tear out and pinned the snapped one back. While in there they noticed something else wrong so I needed a second op.
my ligaments behind the knee were dead. The 2nd op required me to have hamstring removed and bolted to back of the knee.
Im not allowed to do any sport ever again as if it goes I will require a artificial knee.
This week funnily enough Ive had a severe pain in it so have gone back to the surgeon who did the ops 5 years ago. Ive had MRI scan and xrays and the the results early next week.
really hope I dont need another op!
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Was it an arthroscopic surgery or an operation on an open knee?
I asked my father whether it is possible to recover after 8 days (my dad is a doctor) and he told me that if MCL repair and meniscus repair is done arthroscopically it is natural that you come back to normal after a few days. He even gave me an example of a Polish ski-jumper (not Małysz - one of my dad's generation) who came back to sport after 3 weeks of the op and won a gold medal.
Sorry for your knee!
07-01-2011, 04:34 PM
