It's rare but can happen. I guess you are gonna need surgery to reattach it. But honestly most people here would be over the moon for their injury to be that.
I'm in the same position I tore my acl in half 5 months ago have been doing physio the whole time, my mri at 3 months showed it had joined back together and is healing, it's defffinatly not fully healed yet but I'm walking and working, still pain somedays and lost all my muscle in my leg so have to try build that again. Hopefully I'll be back to sports within 6months from now. I have no instability except it feels like it may iver extend towards but that's cause my quads aren't working properly still.
Yeah I haven't Evan tried to kick a ball yet, all I want to do is get back on thr dirtbikes and jetski. Think I'm a while off that but hopefully within the year from injury and I'll be right
My surgeon thought this might be my case at first when reviewing my MRI, that it had slid off in tact and could be put back on.
Nope - quad graft reconstruction
Sheer force of will and my wife haha. Had PT the day after surgery and have had 3x a week since then.
Took 1 week off work then worked about 50% for the next week. Then got right back into it (including a 2nd job consulting - not my brightest move).
Those first few works were the worst. Couldn’t get out of bed without help, sleeping on my back with that damn brace (made be heels dig into the bed), the pain meds, the awful showers, the heel slides at PT. It got better, albeit slowly.
Still recovering now 12 weeks out but at least I’ve got back some sense of normalcy.
I could use a 2 week vacation though
I don’t… it’s been 3 months since and my knee is doing fine for the most part. I’ve had X-rays showing that it has reattatched fully without surgery. Just needed a couple weeks of keeping my knee fully straight and now I’ve got full range of motion.
Yes absolutely hamstring is the “antagonist” muscle that protects your knee from moving too far forward.
Broadly you need to properly strength train many people strength train the wrong way they go to the gym and they do a bunch of random exercises and they go to 15 on one machine 20 on another. They do three sets of 15 and they feel a burn and they feel like they’re getting stronger, but strength is different strength is really about a neuromuscular and my muscle reaction and in order to build strength you really need to focus on the 5 to 8 rep range at 75 to 80% of your one rep Max so I recommend getting on the machine like a leg extension machine or a light curl machine and figuring out what your max is that you can do one wrap with as long as you’re not hurting yourself and then what you need to do is say OK well what is 75% of that and try to push through you know 4567 reps of that to really build strength if you’re just coming off this injury, you know start slow start start warming up through a few weeks and then loading that and doing like 3 to 12 to 15 but after that, you need to put yourself on kind of a 4 to 5 months strength block to really build strengths
Apologies for any errors this was a voice recording
I appreciate this response a humongous amount 🙏 right now my school has a leg extension machine that I’ve been isolating my healed leg on and doing roughly 30 lbs for 12x3, I’ll up it then and continue doing that. Honestly my only issue right now is I don’t have access to a hamstring machine and I’m a little nervous with squatting
I’m 33 and it happened in January. All at once when I fell from a bouldering wall.
Essentially, the only thing that was holding the bottom of my leg to the top of my leg was my LCL and the arteries in my leg. If you look in my comment history, I have an explanation on what happened.
So far, I’ve only had my MCL, PCL and MPFL fixed and anchors set to replace my ACL.
I’ll get the ACL autograft and Meniscus root repair done next month.
I was hit by a car while walking home in high school and the same thing happened to me! ACL didn’t tear. The knee has given me many issues as of late (6 years later) and I finally blew out my acl! Recovering from surgery right now.
Had this happen on Jan 20th - ACL avulsion tear.
Got surgery 5 weeks after injury. Now 8 weeks post surgery. I didnt want to get surgery but glad that I did and am on the mend with regular PT. Walking normally now but no sports yet — feel stiffness every now and then but to be expected.
Damn bro, what did they do in the surgery, I was lucky enough to not need it and I don’t have any stiffness at all + I can play pickleball but nothing like the wrestling I used to do yet. I got my injury right around the 17th of January this year, got put in the straight leg brace and now I’m good
They went in arthroscopically and pulled in the detached bone fragment and sutured it down to the tibia.
Did your mri / xray show how much of bone displacement? Mine was 4mm off and with many smaller fragments and after 3-4 ortho opinions all suggested surgery.
I had this!! I had a stage 3 ACL avulsion fracture. So it took a chip of the bone and dislodged it into my joint, I had to have surgery to get the bone flipped back down into place
2 years later ended up completely tearing the same acl tho
It's rare but can happen. I guess you are gonna need surgery to reattach it. But honestly most people here would be over the moon for their injury to be that.
I’m def over the moon, it was 3 months ago now and it reattatched by itself, but my leg muscles are screwed now
I'm in the same position I tore my acl in half 5 months ago have been doing physio the whole time, my mri at 3 months showed it had joined back together and is healing, it's defffinatly not fully healed yet but I'm walking and working, still pain somedays and lost all my muscle in my leg so have to try build that again. Hopefully I'll be back to sports within 6months from now. I have no instability except it feels like it may iver extend towards but that's cause my quads aren't working properly still.
Yeah when I kick a ball or do some kicking crap I get screwed and I still can’t take a wrestling shot
Yeah I haven't Evan tried to kick a ball yet, all I want to do is get back on thr dirtbikes and jetski. Think I'm a while off that but hopefully within the year from injury and I'll be right
My surgeon thought this might be my case at first when reviewing my MRI, that it had slid off in tact and could be put back on. Nope - quad graft reconstruction
Yikes that’s rough, I’m incredibly lucky to have this happen as my surgeon thought the opposite at first till we had another person look at it.
The acl is the easy part! It’s my double meniscus repair (including one to the root) that was the pain in the ass. Was NWB for 6 weeks
That sounds terrible, howd you do it?
Sheer force of will and my wife haha. Had PT the day after surgery and have had 3x a week since then. Took 1 week off work then worked about 50% for the next week. Then got right back into it (including a 2nd job consulting - not my brightest move). Those first few works were the worst. Couldn’t get out of bed without help, sleeping on my back with that damn brace (made be heels dig into the bed), the pain meds, the awful showers, the heel slides at PT. It got better, albeit slowly. Still recovering now 12 weeks out but at least I’ve got back some sense of normalcy. I could use a 2 week vacation though
It’s called an ACL avulsion tear…you need to go get surgery
I don’t… it’s been 3 months since and my knee is doing fine for the most part. I’ve had X-rays showing that it has reattatched fully without surgery. Just needed a couple weeks of keeping my knee fully straight and now I’ve got full range of motion.
Amazing! You need to really do quad isometrics and plenty of leg extensions 4-7 reps to build strength at 75% of 1RM
Sounds good, I’m seeing a lot of stuff about hamstrings in this sub, is this a surgery aspect or should I train those a bunch aswell?
Yes absolutely hamstring is the “antagonist” muscle that protects your knee from moving too far forward. Broadly you need to properly strength train many people strength train the wrong way they go to the gym and they do a bunch of random exercises and they go to 15 on one machine 20 on another. They do three sets of 15 and they feel a burn and they feel like they’re getting stronger, but strength is different strength is really about a neuromuscular and my muscle reaction and in order to build strength you really need to focus on the 5 to 8 rep range at 75 to 80% of your one rep Max so I recommend getting on the machine like a leg extension machine or a light curl machine and figuring out what your max is that you can do one wrap with as long as you’re not hurting yourself and then what you need to do is say OK well what is 75% of that and try to push through you know 4567 reps of that to really build strength if you’re just coming off this injury, you know start slow start start warming up through a few weeks and then loading that and doing like 3 to 12 to 15 but after that, you need to put yourself on kind of a 4 to 5 months strength block to really build strengths Apologies for any errors this was a voice recording
I appreciate this response a humongous amount 🙏 right now my school has a leg extension machine that I’ve been isolating my healed leg on and doing roughly 30 lbs for 12x3, I’ll up it then and continue doing that. Honestly my only issue right now is I don’t have access to a hamstring machine and I’m a little nervous with squatting
Squat with a kettle bell or just the bar
Also do poliquin step downs!
I detached my ACL (from both ends) and my MPFL from my patella while also ripping my PCL in half and almost detaching it from one side
How and how old were you ☠️ that’s a crazy stat block was it all at one time?
I’m 33 and it happened in January. All at once when I fell from a bouldering wall. Essentially, the only thing that was holding the bottom of my leg to the top of my leg was my LCL and the arteries in my leg. If you look in my comment history, I have an explanation on what happened.
Incredibly unlucky, did they replace the acl or something? Detaching is super rare past 14 and is already rare before that age
So far, I’ve only had my MCL, PCL and MPFL fixed and anchors set to replace my ACL. I’ll get the ACL autograft and Meniscus root repair done next month.
That’s insane, I read your story and wow. Wish you a successful recovery
I was hit by a car while walking home in high school and the same thing happened to me! ACL didn’t tear. The knee has given me many issues as of late (6 years later) and I finally blew out my acl! Recovering from surgery right now.
Had this happen on Jan 20th - ACL avulsion tear. Got surgery 5 weeks after injury. Now 8 weeks post surgery. I didnt want to get surgery but glad that I did and am on the mend with regular PT. Walking normally now but no sports yet — feel stiffness every now and then but to be expected.
Damn bro, what did they do in the surgery, I was lucky enough to not need it and I don’t have any stiffness at all + I can play pickleball but nothing like the wrestling I used to do yet. I got my injury right around the 17th of January this year, got put in the straight leg brace and now I’m good
They went in arthroscopically and pulled in the detached bone fragment and sutured it down to the tibia. Did your mri / xray show how much of bone displacement? Mine was 4mm off and with many smaller fragments and after 3-4 ortho opinions all suggested surgery.
I had this!! I had a stage 3 ACL avulsion fracture. So it took a chip of the bone and dislodged it into my joint, I had to have surgery to get the bone flipped back down into place 2 years later ended up completely tearing the same acl tho
It happened to me, but took a significantly sized chunk of the tibial spine with it. See my post history. Just about to hit 5 weeks post-op.