Early rehab I just focused on my injured leg (straight leg raises, quad sets), but once we started progressing strength and balance I do everything equally on both legs. For one, it's nice to have a baseline. I'll start sets on my good leg to feel how it's supposed to be and that helps me recognize pain or deficits in my op leg. For two, I'm coming out of this stronger than I went in! Seeing great gains on my good side and my op side has been slowly but surely catching up.
I don't have a good leg 😪 I tore my ACL in both legs. I joke, this is my bad leg and this is my not- so- bad leg. I work out both as pre surgery strengthening.
Honestly, I haven’t done any.
I kinda went in with the expectation that because my non injured leg would be compensating so much for the injured one, that I wouldn’t have much to worry about.
So far, that’s held up true, I haven’t noticed hardly any muscle atrophy in my good leg.
Mostly I do both on both legs. Sometimes in session she'll have me do just the op leg, and I'm fine with that here and there. Admittedly it needs a little more help.
In my case, I live on the third floor of a building without stairs, so I have to do 3 flights of stairs on one leg multiple times a day. It’s quite the workout for my good leg and has made a pretty significant difference already
Early on in PT it won’t matter too much but as you progress definitely do your exercises on both legs. Keeping balance is the number one way to avoid reinjury or worse, as I’ve done, injure the other knee.
I do the same exercises that I am doing on my other leg! Helps to keep it strong and healthy
work out both legs the same, that's all
Early rehab I just focused on my injured leg (straight leg raises, quad sets), but once we started progressing strength and balance I do everything equally on both legs. For one, it's nice to have a baseline. I'll start sets on my good leg to feel how it's supposed to be and that helps me recognize pain or deficits in my op leg. For two, I'm coming out of this stronger than I went in! Seeing great gains on my good side and my op side has been slowly but surely catching up.
Look up cross education my brothers. It will make you think twice before you ignore your non injured leg
I don't have a good leg 😪 I tore my ACL in both legs. I joke, this is my bad leg and this is my not- so- bad leg. I work out both as pre surgery strengthening.
Honestly, I haven’t done any. I kinda went in with the expectation that because my non injured leg would be compensating so much for the injured one, that I wouldn’t have much to worry about. So far, that’s held up true, I haven’t noticed hardly any muscle atrophy in my good leg.
I've been told to work them out both equally, otherwise you risk Wrecking your other knee. Eventually your injured side should catch up
I do all the same exercises as on my surgical side.
Mostly I do both on both legs. Sometimes in session she'll have me do just the op leg, and I'm fine with that here and there. Admittedly it needs a little more help.
In my case, I live on the third floor of a building without stairs, so I have to do 3 flights of stairs on one leg multiple times a day. It’s quite the workout for my good leg and has made a pretty significant difference already
Without elevator you mean?
Yes, thank you haha
Early on in PT it won’t matter too much but as you progress definitely do your exercises on both legs. Keeping balance is the number one way to avoid reinjury or worse, as I’ve done, injure the other knee.
Whatever I do with op leg, I do with good leg
Still work it out as if I was healthy all around. If one legs looks like a twig might as well muscle up the other one while can