I sprinted 200yrds on Monday and was fine. Mountain biking is back. I measure for my brace on Monday. Looking forward to it...

Do any of you have any thoughts or experience concerning Airarmor knee brace. It only braces the outside of the knee - there is no inside hinge. Also - there is no strap on your thigh. It stays in...

My PT told me that a patient needs to gain full extension by 6 weeks or its not going to happen. I'd do whatever your PT is telling you in the realm of closed chain. But work it religiously to get...

Splat - can you describe this back stretch again. I'm not sure I get the picture of what you are doing. My thought is that you lay on your back and arch it off the floor so that only your shoulders...

Yes - lower back pain and aching in the hips due to laying in bed, not walking right, etc... Although I had lower back pain before my ACL tear. Playing soccer made it go away. I think once rehab...

My experience backs up drmark. The orthopedic doctor I first saw only wanted an MRI as backup and spent all of 2 minutes looking at it. He transferred me to a Dr. who had been at the hospital...

Since I already made my graft choice and had the surgery in March I have been off this blog site for a couple months. I wanted to check in again and came upon this thread. Some are getting on...

Got my patellar autgraft today. I hated the drowsy feeling. It just went away. On to healing......

Patellar Autograft in March! Looking forward to it. The Dr. said that our region does a lot of hammies (Sacramento). He suggested it was because the Dr. who developed (or helped develop) the use...

I just got back from my Dr. He made the comment that if I wanted a hammie that I would need to go somewhere else. He said for autograft he will only do patellar. I thought that was interesting. I...

Another two questions

1. If a surgeon is thought to be good at ACL repairs - about how many per year/month would you think they would be doing? I know there are other factors - but its one of the...

DrMark - I asked you a question at the top of page 4 in this thread. I was hoping you might have some insight on whether it seams the west coast is being more accepting of the allograft than the...

Dr. Mark,

Do you see any indications that the western US is more accepting of the allograft while the rest of the US says the allograft is a weaker option? I can't validate it or not and was...