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Originally Posted by bboozer
I know that this has been discussed before.... I am just curious if anyone knows what type of ACL repairs the top pros have had... Like Dowdy doesn't look like he has missed a beat. I tore my ACL on Aug 28 and I am having the surgery on Sept 15. I am going with my Dr's recommendation of the hamstring graft. My situation is that I am 45 yrs old and I hope that I can recover and convince my wife to let me ride like I want to again. I tore it trying to learn TS front roll and cased the wake. I can land my tantrums consistently and Scarecrows most of the time... I used to have the HS bankroll but lost it when I finally figured out the trip flip edge for the tantrum.... Just curious to see what the Pro's opted for surgery wise. I will rehab hard and feel confident that I will be fine to ride again, but I tore my quad tendon on the other (left) leg the 1st day on the water in '14 and then re-tore it 8 weeks post op.... So this will be the 3rd knee surgery in 3 summers.... I am really bummed at the thought of having to surf... No adrenaline in that....
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I ride with a friend who pushed his return from ACL just like you did for tendon. Weaknesses from
Old injuries lead to new ones, though as you described in your mind that you cased the only reason you blewACL. My friend while riding blew the cadaver ACL during its regeneration period when it comes back to life(8 weeks- how frickin stupid-(which is the definition of stupid 8 weeks post op return to activities much less the arrogance and hubris). Now let me apologize about name calling now but true is true His redo became infected, knee more stable now but infection almost claimed his life and it is still chronic though he had made recent strides to heal that.
By the way I am a 1985 recipient of the old train track style 9-11 inch on each side of knee for a terrible triad reco including the facia cutting and reused as new ligament on outside of knee, nasty surgery. I lost rugby football and I had just made select side status.
If you don't want to lose wakeboarding you need to adjust your approach to returning in normal time intervals. I butterfly fractured/shattered my femur on a Flowrider 7/1/2015 and resulting nail surgery. I got to surf and skate 4/1/16 and fully healed 9/2/2016 and back to wakeboard now and I was never as good as you but I'm starting back with short approach one wake airs to let myself back in before going wake to wake.
Choose your surgery wisely and then do the responsible thing for yourself and delay your return and you will benefit from The rehab and strengthening and return to the skate and surf and ease back in!!! At intervals age appropriate and longer even than your doctors recommendation