tore mine yesterday in soccer. I was wondering if anyone had any advice to treating it until i see the orthopedic surgeon on thursday. and yes i know elevate and ice

I've lived with a partially torn ACL since age 14. I don't know that there is anything else you can do other than rest & compress and be extremly careful if you do in fact put any weight on it. Putting any type of weight on your leg with no ACL there could risk a collapse of the joint and place uneeded/damaging stress on all the other tendons/ligaments/cartilage in your knee.

Sorry to hear this happen to you, dude.

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Originally posted by Ygrene I've lived with a partially torn ACL since age 14. I don't know that there is anything else you can do other than rest & compress and be extremly careful if you do in fact put any weight on it. Putting any type of weight on your leg with no ACL there could risk a collapse of the joint and place uneeded/damaging stress on all the other tendons/ligaments/cartilage in your knee. Sorry to hear this happen to you, dude.

thnx dude. ya i went to the hospital was in ER for sooo long but it was soo funny to see how differently im treated then someone of colored ethnicity. I got the A+ treatment and was dealt with such politness and quicker then everyone else. I had nurses ask if i was single and would like their daughters number. I was put into a separate waiting room, for a bit and when some indian tried to follow he got yelled at back to the other waiting room. kinda fucked up but kinda kick ass.


anyways, the way it happened really pissess me off because it was so unnecessary. ball got passed back to the defender, I was playing striker. Instead of tackling the defender since he had alot of room i decided to rush hi and force the play hoping he would fuck the pass up, which he did. however when he passed i decided to stop running by planting my left foot down and piveting to the new direction. As i did this my knee buckled and i hyper extended my knee and heard pop pop. then my knee twisted and pop pop. drop to the ground in pain and was carried to my car and i drove myself to ER

say goodbye to days of competitive soccer. my condolences dude.

I guess taking a 4 week break wasn't good after all!

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Figure out what to do, then take a nap.

Get a hammer and smash it against your other knee a few times, helps with balance.

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Originally posted by denys envy say goodbye to days of competitive soccer. my condolences dude.

He doesn't have to give up hope just yet; my girlfriend from my college days played on the university's soccer team and tore each ACL once over the course of 3 years, and this was after she already tore one of them before in high school. Rehab was long and difficult, and for a couple of years afterwards she nervously tested it... but she's been playing on a pretty competitive club team now for the last 6 years or so with no more injuries (but complains like shit about stiffness and pain when it rains). I think she's stupid for doing so, but she loves to play. Whatever I guess.

he could get to a place where he can play again but in general it's a horrible injury. two people i work with just had surgery for that, one for the second time in two years and the other for the fourth or fifth time. keep in mind both played college sports and are pretty active people in general and the one with like five surgeries is 27. fucking up your acl is serious business and no matter what forces you to change the way you exercise.

positive is that eric probably has strong leg muscles, that supposedly means quiet a bit. the 34 year old was a runner so no bulk to her legs and the doctor told her that hindered her recovery...

good luck!

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Originally posted by Ygrene I once saw Swamper peel off 4 or 5 $100 bills from a fat roll and say this to Donald Trump: "Go clean yourself up; you look like a bum.". And then he threw the bills right in Trump's face/hair! Then Swamper and his entourage of 30, who were all wearing TA monogramed Rolexes, left the room and flew to Hawaii for a few hours because Del wanted fresh coconut. To his defense, Trump didn't even really look like a bum.

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Originally posted by Chris Crossland I guess taking a 4 week break wasn't good after all!

ya i got back into the gymn this week too. I had tweeked that same bloody knee doing squats on saturday. it was a quick pain and i just figured I put on too much weight, so i went to do a different exercise. a big wtf for sure. shitting and taking showers have never been so awkward.

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Originally posted by EricB. thnx dude. ya i went to the hospital was in ER for sooo long but it was soo funny to see how differently im treated then someone of colored ethnicity. I got the A+ treatment and was dealt with such politness and quicker then everyone else. I had nurses ask if i was single and would like their daughters number. I was put into a separate waiting room, for a bit and when some indian tried to follow he got yelled at back to the other waiting room. kinda fucked up but kinda kick ass.

^5 to being white!

So are you going to request for Jennypie to be your nurse?

My mother was an orthopaedic surgeon, she's deceased so I'll just have to give you my advice and that is to tear the other knee's ligament so you've got a matching pair.