So, the last month things have been busy. I started training with an American football team in Melbourne. I have been keeping up with all the others with no trouble on the knee. No problem with turning, cutting, squatting and running. I also trained two days with an aussie rules footy club and there no knee issues, I just struggled from a general fitness standpoint...
At home I have been doing lots of squatting (mainly to get me fit for a ski trip we are taking in August to New Zealand, with a day of Heli skiing on the cards!!!) Even still my quad is about 90% the size of the other one. I don't really know what to do to get that back to normal.
The physio recommended against playing netball. He said it isn't that the knee can't take it is just that it such a high risk sport and so many people get knee injuries that if I wanted to keep myself healthy for skiing that I shouldn't play it. I think i will take his advice and play gridiron instead.
I would say in hindsight I would have taken more time to do my exersises on a regular basis. Everyone gets busy with work and other things in their lives but I would have spent more time getting my knee ready with stretches, squats and all the other early on exersises the physio gave me I would definetely have been able to return to sports a few month earlier...
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Hey Dougie. Your blog is really interesting and very helpful. I've just blown my ACL and the surgeon wants to repare in the traditional, hamstring way. I'm a keen snowboarder and MX racer, and am interested in LARS as an alternative.
ReplyDeleteHow did the knee hold up with heli? Did it feel good in powder? Are you still happy you went with LARS?
Cheers
Michael