Done, darn

Just started highland games over a year ago and posted on here sometimes. I just did a strongan competition last weekend and tore my ACL while attempting a 280lb. log press and made it worse during the 680lb. frame deadlift where my knee bent in a crazy position it should not have. So I guess I might be out of highland games for good now cause I cannot get the surgery probably for a couple years down the road if at all. That's a part of the sport though. I will continue lifting weights doing what I'm able and don't want to turn into a fat blob. Thanks for letting me vent on here

Ryan,
Hang tough. I tore my ACL, MCL and PCL along with losing half my
meniscus in a rock climbing accident (gravity isn't just a theory). I did the
surgery asap follwed by rehab. I had the accident in July and was throwing
the next season. I'm 44 years old and only 190 lbs and have been throwing
steadily for the past 2 years since the injury.

Hit the rehab with the same mindset as you train and throw and you'll be
back. No reason an ACL should take this sport away from you if you don't
want it to--sure, the first season you may have to make some adjustments,
but no big deal. Hang tough, brother.

ugh, rough.  good luck man.

yesterday I attempted some squats, did some box squats with 305x5 already after only 5 days and I've lost nothing off my deadlift, but squatting the knee is in fixed position. I'm most worried about the spin on the WFD or even the hammer throw putting so much side to side pressure on it. I'm going to keep rehabbing for a month and then maybe put my brace on and see if anything is possible as far as throwing. I'll be careful though.

I do want to get an MRI and get it properly diagnosed when I can at least cause it could be one of the other ligaments, but a doctor that was at the show did the test where you lay down and he pulls your lower leg forward near the calf and he thought it felt like it was moving too much compared to the other leg.

I've never heard of other athletes that did not get the surgery being able to do much, especially the high agility type of movements.

thanks

You really do need to find a way to get a proper diagnosis.  Could be something besides the ACL that you could damage further.

I think the only reason I could do so much is because I have legs that are 30" long and 30" around!  That plus extremely tight hamstrings helped stabilize my knee and allowed it to compensate for no ACL for 10 years of competitive strength sports.  But, I did get the MRI and formal diagnosis to know that the blown ACL was the only problem.

Good luck with the process.

MYLES I LOVE YOU!!!(in a manly way!!) and rehabbing the frig out of these legs just to share the field with you(Shite is sucks coming back from  a dual patellar tendon tear with a torn left quad) BUT I WILL BE BAck!!!!!!!!!!!!

I still haven't made it to the doctor for MRI. But I may have overreacted to this. I'm thinking it's a sprang or tear on the inner part of the knee MCL that's the only place it's tender and it has been 17 days and it feels almost completely normal already I have all my range of motion back. I don't seem to have any stability issues like my knee feeling rubbery or slipping out. I will probably try to practice cautiously in 2 more weeks and test it out with my knee brace on. From what I'm finding the MCL can heal up on it's own so I hope that's the only major issue with it.

An MRI will tell you exactly what you need to know--then you can do rehab that makes sense.  You need to know if it is a torn ligiment and if so, which one or ones or if you don't have a tear at all.  The MRI is worth to know what you're dealing with and how to structure your rehab.

Mike ,I'm in on the home MRI machine. Can we get an open concept model so I fit, Please.......

C. Smith wrote: Get an MRI, seriously.  I average like one to two per year with all the injuries I have, .

Ughh...I hate "the tube"!!!   They have to drug me 1/2 way to comatose to get me in that thing.  You are a far braver man than I Mr. Smith.

That 'other noise' is FRIKKEN loud!  I can't hear the music they pipe in.  Just a good time to meditate and daydream.

It is not a fun thing, but on my list of things they have done to me under the name of medicine it is not that bad.  I mean yes, you are in a tight spot, but no cutting, no sticking, no bleeding.  Just some new age beat they give you.  Relax and let them show you the science. 

Ryan,

Take it from me...go to a doctor and get it checked out.  A torn meni can get out of hand in a hurry.  I don't mean to tell you your business or anything...but I splintered mine, jacked up my ligaments...THEN went out the next weekend to Tulsa and did it all again.  Surgery, repair, long road to recovery.

Snap...did it again.  Walking.  Acute tear of the medial meniscus = removed.

Now, right before what is arguably the greatest test I have EVER faced as an HG athlete, on the biggest stage against some of the finest Am throwers I have known, my leg is still not 100%  I have a month to determine whether or not this thing is even going to hold together.  Best hinge brace science can make, new knee sleeves from Rehband (Thanks Jackal's) a mess of leg work, prehab and rehab, and enough painkillers to choke a goat, and chances are still good it is going to blow out.  Again.  If it happens again, I will most likely sit out another year...another year Ryan.

That kills someone like me, and I'm not nearly as talented as you are, or will become. You can continue for awhile, until you tear a piece off the size of your pointer finger and your knee locks up.  Feels creepy.

Get it looked at man.  I would hate for you, or anyone, to have to mess with this nonsense.