Tore my pcl (posterior cruciate ligament) 10 months ago playing football
, after the initial accident i was walking, climbing stairs for 20 days normally but i had pain only during terminal knee extension-flexion. So i decided to have an mri scan which showed an isolated pcl (posterior cruciate ligament) tear! I had my knee fiitted in a fully extented pcl brace non-weight bearing using crutches for 6 weeks
! Afterwards when i had the brace removed i started physical therapy because everything from toe to hip had atrophied badly and i couldn't even walk without crutches! It took about 15 days, 30 physical therapy sessions to through away the crutches and walk with near normal gait! Now 10 months later i can walk, climb stairs, full squat, bike, even jump-run-sprint, played basketball yesterday asymptomatic, pain free
although that l have some posterior knee laxity (4mm max on my personal clinical examination) and some instability due to i haven't reach my opposite good leg muscle power! Just wanted to share my knee experience injury since a pcl tear is not common, i feel my knee problem has been near (still improving) successfully managed! I hope that i will have the same progress as Martin Skrtel who is still playing football 4 years later after damaging his pcl
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2008 ... mierleague without any problem at all! Also Stephanie Labbe
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephanie_Labb%C3%A9 https://twitter.com/#!/stephlabbe1 http://www.ourgamemagazine.com/?p=583 http://twitpic.com/8ceg98 had the same knee injury, you can find here some videos of her rehab
http://www.youtube.com/user/stephlabbe1/videos! Maybe someone find this useful!
