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Me and My ACL

Filed under: Uncategorized — admin at 12:23 am on Saturday, February 28, 2009

Things I Just Found Out About Anterior Cruciate Ligaments (ACL’s)

- They are one of four main ligaments that stabilize the knee

- A  torn ACL will never heal on its own without surgery

- A person may still be able to do many things with a torn ACL, including most exercises that do not involve intensive planting and pivoting

- Many people in the world are likely walking around with torn ACL’s
- Sports figures get surgery on their ACL’s because the ACL is necessary for them to continue to do the intensive planting and pivoting necessary for their jobs.

- The ACL in my right knee is likely torn
That’s right, I have likely torn the ACL in my right knee.  Earlier this week, I walked into an orthopedic clinic expecting to be told that my knee was on the mend, and instead was told that my ACL is irreparably torn and that I will need surgery if I ever want to return my knee to its maximum strength.

When I first got the news, I was shocked.  My knee had healed to about 90% over the last two months, and my visit to my primary doctor was mainly precautionary.  I expected to be told to rest my knee for a few more weeks.  Now I’m facing the prospect of a surgery that will require 1 week in bed, 1 month on crutches, 6 months of intensive rehab, and 12-24 months of building up the strength in my knee again.

On one hand, the shock is due to the intensiveness of the surgery.  12-24 month recovery?  6 months of intense rehab?  A choice of cutting a piece of your own tendons to make another ACL or using the ACL from a cadaver???  No surgery is a joke, but this is really far from a joke, especially considering that the ACL isn’t something you need to live.

Another part of the shock is due to the fact that, while I am at best a mediocre athlete who is already past his athletic prime, I am facing what is, in effect, a mandate for an earlier-than-anticipated retirement from extremely intensive sports.  Sure there is a question of whether I was ever into extremely intensive sports in the first place.  But now I probably can’t get into it, even if I wanted to.  My career as an NBA guard or a world class soccer player is over.
Another part of the shock is the fact that I’ve destroyed one of the two ACL’s I was born with.  Having been relatively lucky growing up, all of my prior injuries healed by regeneration.  Cuts, bruises, sprains - the skin, blood vessels and muscles healed on their own.  But an ACL won’t heal on its own.  There’s a finality to an ACL injury that makes this more shocking.  I almost feel like I let down my right ACL. It could have gone all the way with me, but now the left one is going to be the only original one left.

Of course, there is an upside to this.  I can walk and run around right now, without pain (even my doctor said my knee is very stable).  The surgery for a torn ACL can be done at any time, so there really is no hurry.   So now I will have to wait, but at the same time, anticipate that I will likely be making friends with a pair of crutches sometime in the relatively near future.

Dammit.