ACL Injury-Help!

Charlie_Francis · October 11, 2009, 9:04pm

Charlie,
I’ll definitely be using the pool. After my first ACL surgery I did not have access to a pool during my therapy and had sub-par therapy. My leg was only 50% the strength of the non-injured one. The doc released my to run after 6 months since the graft was healed completely. I ran the whole summer junior olympic season running a full second slower than what I should have been running in the 100m. Looking back at the film, it looks like I am galloping. Long story short, I went back to therapy and started pool use 3x a week. I believe it help a lot. What kinds of exercises would you suggest in the pool? The had me aqua-belt run against a current in deep water and backpedal and high knee in chest deep water.

On your trainer note, some of those trainers think they know it all, but don’t have a clue. At UM they would not let my lift my upper body b/c it would harm my knee. I laughed.

Number 2,
Thanks for those links. I’ll look at more of Rob’s material. I never thought to post the leg up to even out the bar when squatting. I had that same trouble squatting for about 2 months when I was able to start. I’m using creatine at the moment to help maintain and was planning on using it throughout therapy as well. The co-contraction EMS seems interesting. I will look into that.

go with the pool work you did before but much earlier on. Look at the Rob P stuff closely