How did you tear your ACL?
People can tear their ACLs in a variety of ways. It can occur from high impact sports like motocross or karate, or doing mundane things like walking down stairs or hopping out of bed. Videos actually show athletes tearing their ACLs, not for faint of heart, but give you an idea of how it happens and what it’s like.
How most people tear their ACL
(From December 2010 survey)
Basketball 11.8%
Football 11.8%
Skiing 13.7%
Soccer 23.5%
Other 39.2%
The ‘other’ group contained random activities, such as:
Wrestling
Motorcycle accident
Netball
Ultimate Frisbee
Snowboarding
Kickboxing
MMA fight
Floor hockey
Motocross
Jujitsu
gymnastics
Wrestling
Training with marines
Jumped off truck tailgate
Badminton
Taekwondo
Hockey
We look forward to hearing your story on how you hurt your knee…
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I tore mine playing ultimate frisbee a couple years ago. I jumped to catch the disc and landed wrong with my weight off-balance on one leg on uneven grass. It made an audible pop sound and it felt weird. It didn’t hurt though. I walked away just fine for about 20 feet, then felt a little pain. I was not able to bend the knee normally (probably from swelling) and I limped to my vehicle and drove home. A few hours later and especially the next day, I couldn’t walk hardly at all. Very difficult. For whatever reason it wasn’t painful from the time of the incident to before having surgery.
I tore my acl in both knees playing high school girls basketball and it was the worst pain in my entire life. My first tear was in 10th grade, had the surgery went well until my 11th grade year started having pain due to a screw not dissolving. Got that fixed and knee was 100% back to normal. Then my senior year i tore my other one in a game and got the sugery right away but now 8 months after surgery im having the same problem with the dissolving screw. So having another surgery in december to remove it:( I just cant win with these knees.
I had ACL surgery with a hamstring graft- took about a year to feel back to ‘normal’, but 2 years later, I jumped my dirt bike, got off balance in mid air and landed with most of my weight on my foot of my reconstructed knee. It didn’t pop, but I felt something weird happen. It was sore later and some time later I discovered that it’s much looser than my normal knee. I think I stretched out the graft. argh! so frustrating when you spend thousands of dollars and all that rehab. It doesn’t make sense to cease all sports though. You do all that work so you can enjoy an active life, not sit around and do nothing so you don’t risk hurting it. Anyway, it’s frustrating, but it’s still tighter than it was pre-surgery.
I tore my ACL as well as my MCL, because of the MCL the surgeon wanted to postpone the surgery about 6 weeks (the ACL was fully torn and needed full reconstruction while the MCL was only a third of the way torn and would heal). I wore a brace for the MCL but the part that got me the most was how much I had to stop. I cheered on two competitive teams and took dance, doing athletics through out my entire life had become the norm for me but I had to stop it all. I had previous meniscus surgery on my other knee, but the pain and down down was only about 1% compared to that of this injury. It has been a little over a week since surgery and I am getting better by the day. It has been slow, something everyone told me yet I did not want to believe it was true. No one can prepare you for something like this, such simple exercises seem so difficult now, even though I was in great shape and physical health before this. My
Injury and case has been unique because of the MCL, my PT will be different and I will still wear the brace and be on crutches fora couple weeks, gradually adding weight. I ask, if you know someone with an ACL injury, be nice to them, you never know if it will happen to you, and they are tough to deal with.
Just if you were wondering, my petelar tendon was used, and it has been very painful to bend my leg. I got lucky that my MCL was healed by the time of surgery and was not operated on.
I tore my ACL playing in a football game in high school but the thing about it is I didn’t know I tore it until I went to the doctor and get it looked at thats like the hardest six months ever in my life so far but I’m over it now I’m about to get out of high school now in a few more months don’t know if I want to play football again but I’m going to do my best
I tore my ACL about 4 months ago during football practice, i was playing as a defensive end… i didn’t chop my feet, so i caught a pothole in the practice field and my leg hyperextended. I was out the rest of the season i had surgery on November 9, a full ACL replacement by Dr. Spencer Coray, i am now in track adn field in highschool as a freshman, strengthening my knee in the weightroom and hopeful of next year as a Sophmore to not tear my ACL again.
i torn my acl while playing soccer, after being fooled my a defender.
i went with Hamstring graft surgery.
My surgery was on 15 feb 2012 and after 2 weeks i came to know about LARS ligament reconstruction and i felt really bad about it.
Any day i would have preferred Lars reconstruction with so many benefits over hamstring graft or patella graft.
i missed on it.
You guys DO your search on LARS b4 ur surgrey, i think it can b better
I had torn both my ACLs, 10 years apart. The first ACL surgery was an patella tendon graft on my right knee. There was moderate, tolerable pain even when I took no painkillers. The only problems I’ve had in the past 10 years is tendonitis due to rehabbing too quickly (which has gone away) and my knee cracking when I squat.
I tore my second ACL, but decided on a hamstring graft. This was a MISTAKE. It is a year after my surgery, and I still can not run. The doctor cut a nerve while harvesting my hamstring; I now can not feel my lower left leg from the knee down and it can not be fixed. I also can not lift 5 pounds with my left hamstring since part of my hamstring was used for my ACL. The doctor said it would decrease my hamstring strength by 10%, which in my case, was untrue. It has been a year since my second ACL reconstructive surgery.