Originally posted by Theatre Of Dreams:
oct last yr, i underwent a surgical AnteriorCL + PosteriorCL reconstruction on my knee. yes both cruciate ligaments were torn. the torn meniscus was treated too.
today, i'm back to football (restricted to street only), but only with my knee strapped tightly with a guard. i still feel the knee slightly giving way at times, but not those 'totally giving way resulting in screams' type as before the surgery of course.
still undergoing physiotherapy about every fortnight. my right quads are still visually smaller than my left quads, perhaps due to my lack of diligence. but ya i'm on the improvement still, albeit slow one.
one thing i'd like to enquire, is that is it normal for me to experience the looseness which existed before the surgery, although the magnitude is less now? that is when i'm sitting down and my knee is in a 90-deg position, my lower leg (below knee) can visually stretch away from my upper leg (above knee) forward and backward. does this goes to show that my surgery wasn't fully successful? or that, as long as it doesn't give way like it used to before the surgery, then it's good enough, as what my surgeon claimed?
Sounds like you have laxity of your knee joint....maybe good enough to walk, but definitely not good enough for football..