How do you stay fit with a torn ACL?

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asked Dec 16, 2021 in Other- Health by MSNRMilkshake (810 points)
How do you stay fit with a torn ACL?

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answered Dec 17, 2021 by $19169 (2,810 points)
The best way to stay fit with a torn ACL is to seek physical therapy as physical therapy can help you stay fit through the several safe exercises that the physical Therapist has for you.

You can also do some exercises at home such as the following.

Push-ups, pull-ups, planks, bicep curls and sit-ups are all great exercises that work various upper body muscles.

Depending on the severity of your injury, you may also be able to participate in forms of exercise such as kayaking, bicycling, walking or swimming while you are in recovery.

Walking can help ACL recovery after the ACL has had some time to heal or if you've had ACL Surgery.

Walking on a torn ACL before it has time to heal can make the torn ACL worse.

Walking on a torn ACL can cause additional damage to your knee, such as tears to the cartilage of the knee.

Yes you can walk immediately or at least near immediately after an ACL Tear.

After the pain and swelling subsides from the ACL tear and if there is no other injury to your knee, you may be able to walk in straight lines, go up and down stairs and even potentially jog in a straight line.

An MCL tear can be worse than an ACL Tear.

However an ACL tear can be worse than an MCL Tear too.

An ACL tear is more serious than an MCL tear, and may require surgery to repair.

Recovery time may be 6 months or more, including rehabilitation.

An MCL tear can take around 8 weeks to recover from, but surgery is usually not required.

After a week since you've torn your ACL the swelling should have gone down and the pain should be going away.

Pain often comes from injury to other structures in the knee that occurs when the ACL tears and the knee shifts.

When just the ACL tears, it may not hurt so much and the swelling can settle down after a week or two.

The fastest ACL recovery time is 2 months.

For most people recovering from a torn ACL takes 2 to 9 months for full recovery depending on the severity of the torn ACL.

For most people, it takes 2-9 months to fully recover from ACL surgery.

A 2016 study of 80 amateur athletes found that on average, athletes returned to their sport after eight months.

In some cases you are more likely to tear your ACL on your period although not always.

ACL tear risk in skiing in women is not constant over the menstrual cycle, being 2.4–fold more frequent in pre-ovulatory (follicular and ovulatory) than post-ovulatory phase (luteal).

Oral contraception seems not to exert any protective effect.

ACL Surgery itself is painless as you'll be given general anesthesia so you won't feel pain.

However after the ACL surgery you usually experience some pain as you recover from the ACL Surgery.

Your knee will feel numb and less painful right after surgery because of the medication injected into it.

This will wear off later into the night and the pain could increase.

The most severe pain usually lasts a day or two and then gradually subsides.

An ACL can sometimes grow back if the torn ACL is a minor ACL tear.

More severe ACL tears will require surgery to fix and heal properly.

Very minor tears (sprains) may heal with non-surgical treatments and regenerative medicine therapy.

But full ACL tears cannot be healed without surgery. If your activities do not involve making pivoting movements on the knee, physical therapy rehabilitation may be all you need.

ACL Tears are most common between the ages of 11 to 15 and also between the ages of 15 to 45 due to people in these age groups being more active in sports.

The age at which females demonstrate the highest prevalence of an ACL injury is between the ages of 11 to 15 years old.

However for anyone the ages of 15 to 45 is the most common ages when ACL Injuries occur due to the active lifestyle.

Both boys and girls ages 11 to 12 years demonstrated an increased frequency of ACL injury claims.

The overall ratio of ACL injury claims to total injury claims was consistently higher for the girls as compared with boys, beginning at age 12 years.

ACL surgery is a major surgery that is done to reconstruct and replace a torn anterior cruciate ligament also known as the ACL.

ACL reconstruction surgery is generally safe.

Complications that may arise from surgery or during rehabilitation (rehab) and recovery include: Problems related to the surgery itself.

In the beginning ice is better for an ACL tear and then after the first 3 days applying heat such as a heating pad can be good for an ACL tear as well.

During the first 3 days after the injury, your doctor may recommend applying ice to your knee 3 times a day for 15 minutes at a time to reduce swelling.

After this, applying a heating pad or another heat source, such as a heat wrap, can increase blood flow to the injured area and speed healing.

It is much better to apply ice for 3 to 5 minutes a couple of time an hour, than not at all. During the first 24 to 72 hours be sure to avoid any form of heat at the injury site.

This includes heat lamps, heat creams, spas, Jacuzzi's and saunas.

Avoid all movement and massage of the injured area.

ACL surgery is good for life once you have the surgery unless you have another ACL tear.

Many people who have had ACL surgery are doing well 20 years after the ACL surgery was performed.

The type of sport that has the most ACL injuries is soccer as well as football.

Girls soccer has the most ACL injuries, followed by boys football, girls basketball, girls gymnastics, and boys and girls lacrosse.

Among high school and college athletes, females have two to six times higher ACL injury rates than males in similar sports.

You don't always have to get surgery for a torn ACL.

Whether or not you need surgery after a torn ACL depends on the severity of the ACL Tear.

Partial ACL tears can usually be fixed without surgery while complete ACL tears are more serious and almost always require ACL surgery to fix the torn ACL.

Some surgeons will use metal screws in ACL surgery while others may use bioabsorbable Interference Screws in ACL Surgery.

The interference screw is a direct tendon-to-bone interference fixation device.

It is a typical compression fixation device, which relies on the screw threads to engage and compress the graft for fixation.

This device has been widely used with multiple-looped hamstring tendon grafts in cruciate ligament reconstruction.

After ACL surgery the screws that are put in place for the torn ACL will remain in your knee forever and permanently.

The screws are made to withstand being inside your body for the rest of your life and will usually outlast you.

The surgeon will make a tunnel in your bone to pass the new tissue through for the ACL surgery.

The graft tissue will be positioned in the same place as the old ACL and held in place with screws or staples that will remain in your knee permanently.

A Torn ACL does always pop.

However you might not notice the popping sound if you've never experienced a torn ACL before.

If you think you did tear your ACL then you should go to the emergency room or urgent care just to be safe.

A torn ACL does pop.

When you've torn your ACL you'll hear a loud popping noise at the time of the ACL Injury.

This loud popping sound with the torn ACL is a sure sign of a torn ACL.

An ACL tear is usually worse than a meniscus tear.

The limitations vary depending on which ligament was injured.

However, while both cause a lot of discomfort, technically speaking, an ACL tear could be considered as worse, since it may require surgery to fully heal.

On the other hand, a minor MCL tear can heal on its own.

Injuries to the meniscus, whether or not they require surgical treatment, will generally take about three months to resolve.

“In some cases, it may even be quicker.

ACL Tears and Meniscus Injuries can occur together.

Often when someone tears their ACL, the medial meniscus is also torn or sprained.

These two injuries are addressed in the same surgery.

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