The General Wibble Thread

Physio is VERY boring, I have to get in the right frame of mind to basically hurt myself. I know it's doing me good, but OMG, it's painful. No pain, no gain etc blah blah.

Anyway, Glastonbury was excellent, I survived, in fact as I did a fair bit of walking (more than I've done in the last 4 months in total), my leg feels pretty good and much stronger, so I'm quite pleased about that.

6 week check up with consultant next week, hopefully he will agree with me.

Great to hear you are on the mend Nelly.

Nelly, have just started using a piece of kit called trigger point performance starter self massage. This is excellent bit of kit for ACL injuries. Can use for your normal straightening exercises but also great for ensuring your calf muscle doesn't "shorten". The remaining problems I have now are all related to lack of flexibility, particularly where calf muscle attaches above the knee. Stiffness there is still resulting in what I would call poor joint quality where takes extra effort to straighten. Would say am now 85% back to normal (has been 13 months post op) and had I started using this before would be 100% now. Am guessing you are still stuck to exercise bike for now, remember to keep changing the seat height to challenge the knee even if it means you cannot do full circle.

NellyPS wrote:Physio is VERY boring, I have to get in the right frame of mind to basically hurt myself. I know it's doing me good, but OMG, it's painful. No pain, no gain etc blah blah.

Anyway, Glastonbury was excellent, I survived, in fact as I did a fair bit of walking (more than I've done in the last 4 months in total), my leg feels pretty good and much stronger, so I'm quite pleased about that.

6 week check up with consultant next week, hopefully he will agree with me.

Well done for sticking to the exercises Nelly, and I'm glad you had a good time at Glastonbury :)
Best of luck with the consultant!

Ranchero_1979 wrote:Nelly, have just started using a piece of kit called trigger point performance starter self massage. This is excellent bit of kit for ACL injuries. Can use for your normal straightening exercises but also great for ensuring your calf muscle doesn't "shorten". The remaining problems I have now are all related to lack of flexibility, particularly where calf muscle attaches above the knee. Stiffness there is still resulting in what I would call poor joint quality where takes extra effort to straighten. Would say am now 85% back to normal (has been 13 months post op) and had I started using this before would be 100% now. Am guessing you are still stuck to exercise bike for now, remember to keep changing the seat height to challenge the knee even if it means you cannot do full circle.

Thanks Ranchero, I'll have a look into that. My ROM isn't bad for 5 weeks post op (-7 straight and about 120 bent), it's still very stiff and I've started on the bike, got a looong way to go!

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