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Ok so i fucked my ACL... can i ski?

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lpcmen2001
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Ok let me explain myself, this summer i went to highnorth ( sickest camp ever... ) and well on the third day I did a 7 and crashed... i went to the little Whistler clinic and they told me that I would just have to rest and It should be okay... so i did just that... almost 2 month later ( im back home ) and i go to the hospital to know what's about it since it still hurt me ... the doctor tells me its probably nothing and that i should just take some advil... so i did , didnt help , so i got back there and he told me to get a magnetic photo test or something... when i got the result SURPRISE !! my acl is completly torn... wtf i wasted my whole summer while i could have been doing the surgery and shit!! so now that the ski season is coming i would like to know if it would be possible for me to ski with some kind of protection ( the stuff you put on your knee ) ?! anyone knows?? ...
Sep 11 2006 8:38AM
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Ryno
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You can ski with it but you will likely be in a lot of pain. My advice would to get the surgery asap and you stilll might be able to ski near the end of the season.


Something like this you also need to think longterm about. No skiing for one season is a lot better for your knee long term then not being able to walk without pain when you're 40 because you wanted to ski that one season back when you were a kid.
Sep 11 2006 9:01AM
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acc
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i skied all last winter with a completely torn acl.  wore a brace and def didn't ski at 100%, but i did ski.  some days were better than others. 
Sep 11 2006 10:18AM
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1080bio
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yo can definatly ski, dybvig skied in the olypics with either one or 2 torn acls neadless to say he fucked the rest of his knee but thats cause he was going huge when he did but you can definatly ski with a torn acl just buy yourself a good brace and streghthen your muscels around your knee to help compinsate
Sep 11 2006 10:53AM
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VANULAR
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just get surgery.......dont ski on it, it will fuck u for life...
Sep 11 2006 11:02AM
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Anti-Hero
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ive been skiing the past 3 seasons without an acl and i think pcl in my left knee. when i tore them i was too young to get surgery, since they would need to drill through my growth plate, which would have stunted the growth in that leg. ive just kept all the surrounding muscles strong and been fine, other than the shitty knee braces i had to wear 24/7 for months when i first did it.
Sep 11 2006 11:04AM
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*rkp*
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don't risk it. 
Sep 11 2006 11:09AM
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Triple_Strum
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^exactly. Don't be stupid. You will have your knee the rest of the your life, and you can ski the rest of your life. Take it from someone who can never go 100% any more and who had torn ligaments and tried to go too soon. Get the surgery and do what the doctor says. Skiing isn't worth it (yes, that is coming from me)
Sep 11 2006 11:12AM
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CEDARIMAGE
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my dad tore his 3 years ago and still charges hard in the pow
Sep 11 2006 11:17AM
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WONTON
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decide between one season....or possibly dealing with the acl for the rest of ur life
Sep 11 2006 11:34AM
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duhamelski
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omg omg om-fucking-g high north is like the greatest place ever.  we can like totally be high north buddies
Sep 11 2006 1:54PM
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dan4060
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Skiing with a torn ACL is dangerous, but it can be done. The main danger is that you risk completely blowing apart your knee, as you already have less stability. If you get a brace you might be able to ski the season, if not...Not a very good idea. Afew years ago I blew mine out in January. I got a brace and tried to ski, but ended up packing it in after a month. I was too timid. If you really like to ski park, then a torn acl is not a good thing to be skiing with. My brace cost 1000, but was paid for by insurance. Your best choice is to get surgery, and rehab hard to be back by maybe feb or march.
Sep 11 2006 2:00PM
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kinosoo
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i did and then fucked it up furthor. that being said some of my buds have had like 3 surgeries and now just give it without just got to make shure you landings are right on, notland flat and you will not ski for a few days
Sep 11 2006 2:36PM
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nickmcnutt
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dude, get sugerey as soon as you can. at least you might be able to do some groomers and little rails in the spring. otherwise, you risk never skiing again.
Sep 11 2006 2:46PM
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MLB
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Yeah, you can ski. But you will want to get surgery, and let it heal up good. You can ski after most ACL injurys, but the thing is the risk. If you tear your ACL too many times, or ride with it not healed up good then your leg could be fucked for the rest of your life. Like not being able to use your leg fucked.
Sep 11 2006 3:36PM
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jKutcher
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NOO L.P.!
Sep 11 2006 5:29PM
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Liam.
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it took my brother 5 weeks to get of crutches and its been like 7 weeks and he is still limping when he walks...hes torn both acls...originaly it took him close to a year to fully recouperate sp* so i would stay off of it for awhile
Sep 11 2006 5:37PM
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kirsten
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I am actually in pretty much the exact same position as you. I hurt my knee in January. My orthopedist said nothing was wrong with my knee and to do a ton of P.T. and I could ski the rest of the season. Come May and the pain was still as prominent as it once had been. So ever since May I had been on a waiting list to see a real good doctor in Boston. I went to the doctor 3 days ago and come to find out that I broke the bone that the ACL attaches to, which is an injury that usually only occurs in young children, and I am 17. So they think there is an underlying problem with my knee. I also tore my ACL. Pretty bummer. Soooo long story short, I am scheduled for surgery 10 A.M tomorrow. Hoping to P.T. it hard and make it back in 4 months.

But anyways, I would suggest not skiing on it being torn and all. I did that all last season and it really did not work out as well as I would of liked it to. It is so much harder to do everything and it somewhat frusterating because it is all that much harder to ski.
Sep 11 2006 5:38PM
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papasteeze
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CTI-2 brace has an accessory that can bolt onto your ski boot if you have to ski. I blew an ACL 1 week before a Steamboat vacation. I built enough confidence to ski bumps by the end of the week. I WOULD NOT RISK SKIING PARK unless you want to totally blow your knee. Be careful.

Check out this link.


http://www.dme-direct.com/innovation-sports-cti2-p-752.html
Sep 11 2006 5:39PM
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fouldsys
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wht are you asking us just ask your doctor
Sep 11 2006 6:07PM
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edmonton_skier
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prob cuz his doctor never tried skiing on a torn acl idiot
Sep 11 2006 6:34PM
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skier_bum
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i tore both acls in my knees 4 years ago at nakiska, and that ended my season, but i was back at it the next year. I had to take it slow, but i was back to 100% buy about febuary
Sep 11 2006 7:05PM
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cofreeskier
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i wouldnt ski in fear of further injury, but if you get surgery asap, the doctor might clear you to ski by the end of the season
Sep 11 2006 7:08PM
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ConceptPro153
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I skiied the last 2 seasons with a torn ACL. I would recomend that you just get the surgery now because skiing in pain is never fun and will always hold you back. I got my surgery on July 17th so im almost 2 months out and i can run, jump, and everything because i have been taking therapy hard since the day after my surgery. I am so glad that i wont have to ski in pain again this year and cant wait to get back on the mountain.
Sep 11 2006 7:15PM
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Jwenz
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I just think LP that you should get surgery then sit on NS all the time and pretend you are skiing...take a video game class and learn how to make a sick skiing game...or sumtin...but yeah get the surgery then you can ski the end of the season...you may be able to film or sumtin like just hiking but i dont know much about after surgery procedures
Sep 11 2006 7:20PM
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poofartpee
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u would need to give it like 6 monthes after surgery/rehab before thinking of skiing i have to get an MRI soon to see if theres anything wrong with my knee
Sep 11 2006 7:28PM
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RAGGAMUFFIN
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HEY YOUR KIND OF AN ASSHOLE, I HOPE YOU GET HURT SO YOU CAN SEE HOW MUCH IT SUCKS ASSHOLE.
Sep 11 2006 10:50PM
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D-40
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ryno you are oh so smart
Sep 11 2006 11:00PM
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stylishskier
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be careful... my buddy snowboarded with a CTi^2 brace for like 3-4 years with a blown ACL, he just had surgery in may and is skateboarding again... it can be done, but I wouldn't be looken to learn any big tricks or do many rails... I would ski on it, you only live once, I'm banking on new technology 20 years from now so when Im 40 I dont hurt... I skied on my MCLs... u just gotta take it easy(er)
Sep 11 2006 11:11PM
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lpcmen2001
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thanks for the tips everyone , I really appreciated it...

Wow, to have an injury SUCKS!!!

i think i will try to get an expensive brace from the inssurance and only RIDE the mountain ( no jump/rail ) and I will get the surgery as soon as I can, the only prob is that here in quebec, i will have to wait for like 8month before i can get it, and then 6month before my knee is okay after the surgery... and no i dont have the money to get the surgery in a private clinic...

fuckin injuries...

Sep 12 2006 8:34AM
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papasteeze
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Type "acl forum" in google. You will get overwhelming info on braces. I did my homework, CTI2 was the most and best reffered to brace 2 years ago. I had the plaster cast made, overnighted the cast and had the brace back in one week, set the angle to 20 degrees and bolted the piston to my ski boot. It worked beautifully. I fell once and it released effortlessly. Oh! I did drop the DIN on the bad leg.
Sep 12 2006 10:29AM
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stylishskier
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ummm... Im not sure I would have anybody do my ACL surgery, it would have to be a top sports physician that knew exactly what he is doing, don't go just anywhere or else you might be worse off...
Sep 12 2006 11:15AM
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UTskier
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Yeah, any surgeon that needed an MRI to diagnose an ACL tear might not be a very good surgeon. It's pretty straightforward to tell if the ACL is torn by manipulating the knee. It's one thing if he just wanted to confirm it, but for him to tell you it was fine until he looked at the MRI is sketchy.

Sep 12 2006 1:25PM
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makeitmellow
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DONT DO IT! you might as well just wait the 6 months and be stoked cuz if you ski b4 then, you will only be 85% back to strength in your quads and hammies, plus you may get micro tears in your new acl which you wont feel pain in, but it will effect your strength when your acl is fully healed. those micro tears will still be there causing your acl to be much weaker when you ski. i just cleared my 6month time period from when i tore my acl....do it that way :) you will be fuckin STOKED you did.
Sep 12 2006 3:30PM
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Sashac
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Doctors in Whistler are all fucking handicapped.
They told me I had strep throat and put me on antibotics right away. They told me I wouldn't be contageous in about 48 hours. She even took a fucking throat swab to go get tested!!

Turns out, I never had strep throat.. it's actually MONO. They didn't have the fucking decency to call and tell me that the throat swab was negative for strep throat. Instead, they kept me taking fucking antibiotics that I didn't need AND didn't inform me that I could still make other people infected.

Way to go, retards!
Sep 12 2006 4:35PM
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JohnnyOldGuy
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consider walking around with pain in your knee for the rest of your life if you fuck it up worse without surgery. then consider getting surgery.
Sep 12 2006 4:48PM
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poopdonkey
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dont ski on it....as soon as you completely tear anything in your knee, it becomes way way weaker. a brace will help, but its not even close to enough. if you ski on it you will probably end up tearing more shit or doing damage to cartilige, and cartilige doesnt grow back/ cant be replaced. trust me, i know, i blew out my ACL, tore both medial and lateral meniscuses and blew a piece of cartilige the size of your thumbnail off my femur. i was on crutches for a total of 4 months, had physical therapy for a total of 4 months, and surgery thrown in the middle there. trust me, get the surgery, if its just your ACL it wont be extremely bad....if you end up fucking more shit up, it will be horrible. dont risk it
Sep 12 2006 6:49PM
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Powforbreakfast.
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you just don't buy a good brace.  if your acl is completely torn, you get a fully-supportive brace that fits from the middle of your shins to the middle of your thigh.  it has to made to fit your leg, and it doesn't bend past a certain angle at all.  it costs over 1000 bucks.  my bro's acl way partly torn, and his cost 1700.....
Sep 12 2006 7:13PM
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lpcmen2001
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I actually just called to get the surgery and they told me that I was now on the waiting list TO be on the waiting list to get to see the actually doctor so that he can put me on another waiting list to actually get the surgery ...

so i must

-wait to get on the first waiting list
-wait the first waiting list
-see the doctor
-wait the second waiting list
-get the surgery
-wait the time they tell me after the surgery before i can ski...

wow i wont be skiing until im like 40yrs old...
Sep 13 2006 4:07PM
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papasteeze
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is that the canadian medical system at work?
Sep 13 2006 4:36PM
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lpcmen2001
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exactly...

and my grandparents, parents paid taxes all their life so that i could get healh care... ya right
Sep 13 2006 5:33PM
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poofartpee
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no just whistler
Sep 13 2006 6:51PM
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doitbig
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i had an acl reconstuction in late july. i've been rehabbing hard since a day out. i got an extra 2 more months of rehab. do you guys think it would be possible to be back on skis this year?
Sep 13 2006 7:05PM
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lpcmen2001
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I got hurt in Whistler but I live in Quebec man...
Sep 14 2006 9:47AM
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dooner
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i just went through the process.... its frustrating but now that its over im glad i did it and im glad i cna ski this season strong again... get the surgery
Sep 14 2006 12:37PM
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CalShralpGirl
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You'll be out for at least 6 months, and then for the next 6 months you have to be really careful with it. Sucks that no one caught that early, but if you are lucky you'll get some spring skiing in.
Sep 14 2006 12:45PM
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lpcmen2001
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ya well i hopefully will ... anyway I would also like to know if its normal that 2 month after I torn my ACL my knee isnt hurting anymore ...I mean, if the doctor wouldnt have told me that my knee is fucked I would think it was nothing and that im alright...

I can blade, trampoline and play soccer like before and it doesnt hurt at all... what the fuck ! ... anyway i will get the surgery as soon as i can tho...
Sep 15 2006 8:22AM
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simmers
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Everybody says that you can ski on it, but the problem is the risk -- as if the risk isn't that serious, and you might just feel some more pain and end up really having to get surgery. Here's the thing though: when you ski with no ACL, you're risking injuries that DOCTORS CANNOT FIX. Not like it's really painful, or expensive to fix, it's impossible to fix. So don't worry about it. Just ski. You're a freestyle skier, so you're extreme and you take risks all the time anyway. Just be cool and ski, you know.
Sep 15 2006 12:29PM
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Dilla
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that SUCKS that you have to wait that long, but its good to fix it now, rather than fucking it for life and dealing with it until you die.
Sep 15 2006 1:02PM
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doitbig
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thats normal. it will hurt like shit when there's no acl holding your knee from shooting out to the side tho.
Sep 15 2006 1:17PM
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