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Knee Injuries |
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21.02.08 (75 review reads) |
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Advantages: none
Disadvantages: Broken leg
In November 2006 I was foolishly playing rugby. What was I thinking? That playing a sport would keep me healthy.
I had just been passed the ball on the blind side out of a scum and as the number 14 had only one choice to run in to the gap. There was one person to run around and it was while doing this that my ankle gave way while my leg was fully extended mid stride and my knee twisted and as I was falling to the floor I got takled. I felt a pop in my knee and then lots of pain.
After a visit to the hospital, when they had decided that no bones were broken and I had been plastered up and I was sent on my way with all but the doctors word that I had possibly torn a ligament and I should put no weight on my leg. I had a week off work and then had to struggle to commute into London on crutches which really hurt my hands.
It was not untill January that I got the results of my MRI scan and was diagnosed with a torn Anterior Cruciate Ligament as it turns out this is a really important part of ones knee if any kind of sport is to be played in the future. It's a horrible feeling when your knee "goes" after you have a ligament missing, like slipping on ice but from the knee not the foot.
I had my first operation to remove the cruciate ligament compleatly as it was balled up in the knee joint and I was unable to fully extend my knee inhibiting my physio therapy. I had to have absolute full movement of my knee so my knee would be strong enough to cope with having a ligamen graft. My knee muscles had waisted terribly as I had not put any weight on it for about three months.
Fortunatly my wonderful surgeon was able to fix my knee compleatly by grafting the tendon from the front of my knee and replacing the ligament that I had broken. If it were not for him and the advanced technology of todays medicine I would be crippled.
Summary: knees are delicate
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