Subject: RE: Question for Docs or PT's Yes, suggested cadaver and said that the tunnels from my prior recon look good enough to use again. Obviously he won't be sure of that until he gets in and sees it but x-rays look good. He did voice to me the need to get my hammies as strong as possible. Also stated that he didn't find much, umm, play in it (I forget the word ), oo, instability, thats it. Problem was that I automatically tense when he goes to move it so he said the only real way to know how much play there was is to knock me out.
Plan right now is to go talk to him next week, if we decide surgery he will check for instability when I am out, go in with the scope, see what he thinks and be ready to replace the ACL. MRI shows some fibers so I DO have an ACL, just a matter of what it looks like. Says he has a tendancy to listen to a patient that says their knee gives out over a hard to read MRI.
Wants to look at my ACL op report and talk to me on Tuesday. I just want to get a new one and rehab the correct way.
BTW, I do have some degeneration on the backside of my patella. He plans to look at that while in there if we do the surgery.
Side note. For those looking at a total knee replacement someday, as someone said before, they don't say you can't run again, they just suggest not doing it. He gave the example of a car. They all have shocks, but if you want the shocks to last longer, don't go extreme off roading. |