ACL surgery and recovery(Should I got to rehab anymore?) LOL?
I just had ACL surgery December 15th. It has been less than a month and I’ve only been through one week of rehab. I have little to no pain at all. I can bend my knee and straighten it all the way. Rehab seems like a joke seeing as I have a full gym in my basement and know the exercises to get my knee stronger (clearly). I know to take it easy w/ the knee no jumping or anything till I can get my stability and 3months of course! Rehab seems good to find out what exercises to use but thats it. Think I’ll do fine w/ out going to rehab seeing as all thats in my way is healing and more strenthening? P.S. the girl has me doing flexibility crap that I can’t do that much at all LOL and… working on balance which I’m terrible at. I fall down when I play tennis LOL (tripping over the feet of course) so anyways, I’m thinking about getting rid of the whole reahab in the next week or two seeing as I feel I can do the stuff on my own. Right thing to do?
Wow if everything is indeed as you say, you’ve progressed very fast. If you can truly bend your knee and straighten it as you could before you got hurt, then you are a remarkably fast healer. I had my left ACL repaired and it took me about 3-4 months to get back all my full range of motion and stuff.
Sounds like you know what you are doing though, because doing the proper knee strengthening exercises is paramount and you shouldn’t do the jumping, etc (but it seems like you already know that, as well as the reasoning behind that).
I think you can certainly ditch the rehab sessions once you know they are not going to teach you anything new. I didn’t go to see the physical therapist too often, but unlike you, I didn’t know the proper exercises and I don’t have my own home gym. However, they said I would be out of commission for 6 months but I got back into sports at 5 months. Quicker than projected but not as quick as you, it seems!
I’d also keep in touch with the orthopedist who did your surgery and keep your appointments with him also, though I think you’re probably gonna do that anyway.
Good luck! And speedy recovery!
