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Hi,I dislocated my R knee just before Thanksgiving(Nov 21, 2010), tearing my acl, pcl, and sustaining a Posterolateral corner injury and my peroneal nerve was injured. No surgery was performed, the orthopedic surgeon is waiting for me to regain ROM. It's been 6 weeks, and the pcl has tightened up, stabilizing the knee joint. I'm walking around with a knee brace. I just went to get fitted for a AFO, but since my insurance was changing at the beginning of the year I had to wait. I'm taking a bunch of vitamin and supplements for the ligament, bone and nerve damage - A General multivitamin, Fish oil, B complex with (b12)Methycobalamin, Gotu Kola, Vitamin C, Calcium, Glucosamine Chondroitin, and Lions Mane Mushroom(Hericium erinaceus). I also took Yunnan Paiyao the first 2-3 weeks for healing the bruising, but it's also supposed to help with general circulatory system issues.I don't really have much pain, the top of my foot and side of my calf has tingling sensations so I assumed that was a good sign and the orthopedic surgeon pretty much said so. My neurologist said that the nerve was reacting at about 10%, so it's not severed. And the sensory nerves seem to be fully functional, I can feel temps and touch. And I found an acupuncturist who also is an MD in China who worked in Orthopedics there. So he has been working on stimulating that nerve. He does electroacupuncture, and when the machine is on, wow, I can feel the entire nerve pulsating from my knee to the top of my foot. It's amazing. I've only been doing it for 2 weeks, twice a week, so we'll see. He recommended 3 times a week, but I'm paying out of pocket Insurance would cover it, but only 15 sessions and we have a $5000 deductable for Out of Network which would certainly not be met. I'm hopeful though. And I've had some interesting discussions about treatment here(the US) versus China. As in all my injuries would have been repaired right away in China, as opposed to this wait and see approach. I don't know what the hell they are waiting for. It was a bad enough injury that they know it needs surgery, and I think if I had torn the popliteal artery then surgery would have been done right away. And I have a fracture of the tibial plateau on the L side, but since it's stable and not displaced, nothing was done. In China they would have wrapped it, just so it doesn't accidentally become displaced and a difficult repair. I was sent home expecting to be able to walk on the that leg with crutches, because the other was so messed up! Not even a word about being careful, since that can be a hard fracture to repair, etc.Also, I find walking barefoot is not too bad, but some shoes seem to make my ankles wobbly. The acupuncturist said that having drop foot for too long makes the ankle weak. I assume that's because the one side doesn't have any muscles stabilizing it?