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How long does it take...
How long does it take, on average for an athletic person, to come back from a severed ACL and a "mostly removed" meniscus for fixed gear/track? Anyone gone through this and how long did it take you?
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Tom
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These knee injury threads that pop up every few weeks are making me uneasy. Time to start taking some glucosamine.
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about a year to a year and a half
one messenger here locally severed his ACL in december of 2005, he was back on his bike around july of 2006, and prettymuch back to normal by year end 2006, however, he will never ever be 100% again, just the way it is---------he switched to singlespeed for the most part, but does occasionally ride fixed, but he never has really ridden a whole lot, has like 4 customers and might ride 10-15 miles a day if that
doesnt mean eveyone is like that, but from what he told me it will never be 100% again, joint injuries, ligament tears or tendon injuries take a long time to get better, I know mine did when I had a distal radius fracture, that took more than a year to get better
one messenger here locally severed his ACL in december of 2005, he was back on his bike around july of 2006, and prettymuch back to normal by year end 2006, however, he will never ever be 100% again, just the way it is---------he switched to singlespeed for the most part, but does occasionally ride fixed, but he never has really ridden a whole lot, has like 4 customers and might ride 10-15 miles a day if that
doesnt mean eveyone is like that, but from what he told me it will never be 100% again, joint injuries, ligament tears or tendon injuries take a long time to get better, I know mine did when I had a distal radius fracture, that took more than a year to get better
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Originally Posted by hockeyteeth
These knee injury threads that pop up every few weeks are making me uneasy. Time to start taking some glucosamine.
Originally Posted by pedex
about a year to a year and a half
one messenger here locally severed his ACL in december of 2005, he was back on his bike around july of 2006, and prettymuch back to normal by year end 2006, however, he will never ever be 100% again, just the way it is---------he switched to singlespeed for the most part, but does occasionally ride fixed, but he never has really ridden a whole lot, has like 4 customers and might ride 10-15 miles a day if that
doesnt mean eveyone is like that, but from what he told me it will never be 100% again, joint injuries, ligament tears or tendon injuries take a long time to get better, I know mine did when I had a distal radius fracture, that took more than a year to get better
one messenger here locally severed his ACL in december of 2005, he was back on his bike around july of 2006, and prettymuch back to normal by year end 2006, however, he will never ever be 100% again, just the way it is---------he switched to singlespeed for the most part, but does occasionally ride fixed, but he never has really ridden a whole lot, has like 4 customers and might ride 10-15 miles a day if that
doesnt mean eveyone is like that, but from what he told me it will never be 100% again, joint injuries, ligament tears or tendon injuries take a long time to get better, I know mine did when I had a distal radius fracture, that took more than a year to get better
Maybe Ill get a flip-flop hub and switch to a single speed for a year or so and heal. Better that than the alternative!
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the time involved is mostly due to the new ligament needing to "vascularize", and that takes a long time
if they say it will be 100% then maybe it will be, dunno, I dont know what kind of history the guy here had before he tore his ACL, I do know that even to this day the guy rides with his saddle jacked up about 2" too high LOL
if they say it will be 100% then maybe it will be, dunno, I dont know what kind of history the guy here had before he tore his ACL, I do know that even to this day the guy rides with his saddle jacked up about 2" too high LOL
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Well I commuted to work on fixed 5 days/week, played soccer 2 to 3 days/week and had my operation done at a sports medicine hospital and the PTs are into the sports area as well... but not one of them knows about riding fixed/track just geared. But if I have to wait a year or so for fixed but can get back on a geared soon, I can cope with that.