My knee is scrambled

[Joe]

I blew out my knee back in the day before they knew
what an ACL was. No surgery, and, as you can imagine,
it was bad for years. I moved to Maui, started swimming
and body surfing 4,5,6 hours a day. One day I went down
to the gym (where they now play the Maui invitational),
and low and behold I was putting my hand inside the rim
(I'm under 5'11"). No pain except for a lot of rust on
my jumper.

Moral of the story? After it's back in place get some swim
fins and swim your *** off. The water lets you work it without the negative impact of gravity. I bet it helps circulation down there too.

Originally posted by Camron Rust
Blew out my knee last Wednesday.

Found out from the MRI results today that I really screwed it up:

Torn ACL
Torn MCL
Torn Meniscus
Femoral Condyle was damaged somehow... the doc kept going but that's about all I heard.
I see an ortopedic surgeon next week to figure out what to do about it and when.

It happened by attempting to put back a rebound...no contact..noone within several feet of me according to everyone in the gym. They said it looked like my foot slipped on a wet spot as I was pushing off of it to jump causing my knee to rotate then buckle sideways.

Moral of the story...when someone falls, make sure that it gets cleaned up.

Call me gimpy.


[Edited by Camron Rust on Apr 9th, 2003 at 05:26 PM]