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Skiing with torn ACL

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frenchsteeze
Posts: 259 - Karma: 44
have you ever done it? how was your knee afterwards? im not planning on doin anything serious, jus filmin a bit and gettin around from point A in the park to point B
Dec 18 2009 1:49AM
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griffin.paisley
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just dont fall
Dec 18 2009 1:51AM
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Deletedtoday
Posts: 4060 - Karma: 398
talk to mrs.skier
Dec 18 2009 1:52AM
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ski_ENDUB
Posts: 2535 - Karma: 86
basically if you fall or twist your knee and tear your miniscus then you're really fucked
Dec 18 2009 2:15AM
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Black-Bandanna
Posts: 6680 - Karma: 1,603
No ACL = super fucking unstable knee. If you hit a bump wrong and you get a weird motion in there, you're fucked. Even sliding sideways to stop would be sketchy. I highly advise you not to, but it's up to you.
Dec 18 2009 2:18AM
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Balto
Posts: 25985 - Karma: 4,404
im currently skiing with tears in both my ACLs, not all the way thru tho, lets just say it hurts
Dec 18 2009 2:25AM
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jdilla
Posts: 706 - Karma: 41
If you ever want to ski again, I recommend rehabbing/surgery/recovery. Not skiing for a season is not nearly as bad as never being able to ski or do anything physically demanding again.
Dec 18 2009 2:38AM
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steezology101
Posts: 200 - Karma: 12
No offense, but to me, if you even think about skiing with a fucked ACL, your an idiot.
Dec 18 2009 3:04AM
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Ryanvdonk
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its actually not as bad as you think, if its before your surgery and youre just cruising groomers a bit, taking it easy and maybe being filmer a little bit, its not bad. considering some people compete moguls with blow acls its not really that big a deal.
Dec 18 2009 3:10AM
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MrLarsen
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Depends on the severity of the injury. If the acl is completely torn I would probably recommend you to not ski. The risk might not be for further screwing up the acl, but there´s three other ligaments and the meniscus which you might screw up if you get the knee in the "right" position..
Dec 18 2009 6:17AM
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SKETCHY_D
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yea dood according to my first doctor he thought it was fine but thats after the fact it was m 2nd acl repair and that he forgot tot tell me i had a torn meniscus, i went to go see one of the better doctors in thestate and he told me you pretty much garanteed to mess it up even more, go get it fixed, rehab real hard and you'll be skiing in 3 mnths
Dec 18 2009 7:50AM
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twin-tip-hero
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yeah man when i did my ACL in i was skiing on it for the next 4 weeks. and it was not fun at all. all u was doing was filming, and taking it easy and i was in lots of pain. dont take that risk dude its just not worth it. go get that shit fixed so you can get back out ASAP.
Dec 18 2009 8:46AM
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zrogers721
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I tore mine last September riding a BMX bike. I didnt go to the doctor for a little over a week. Got an MRI and the dr said my acl rubberbanded when it tore. I went to a month of phsical theropy didnt get surgery and i just wear a big knee brace and its pretty good. It will hurt and swell but its nothing that you cant ride through.
Dec 18 2009 8:49AM
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vincepru
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same with my right knee. docs said they should heal up by themselves eventually and wont need surgery. when i tore my mcl though i got that fixed immediately and it sucked. that was soccer season.
Dec 18 2009 9:16AM
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gingersteeze270
Posts: 358 - Karma: 784
i am currently skiing with no acl at all  and im still doin comps and skiing jsut as hard my only problem is i cant land forward or it gets all messed up ha but im not throwin a season for acl
Dec 18 2009 10:24AM
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LoLo913
Posts: 600 - Karma: 29
dont do it... you will fuck your meniscus
Dec 18 2009 11:43AM
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mer-man
Posts: 1079 - Karma: 10
perhaps dont listen to ns and aska doctor what kind of force its gunna take to fuck up youre personal injury
Dec 18 2009 12:13PM
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SmokeyTheBear
Posts: 492 - Karma: 24
Uh what. I hope you don't mean the ACL itself will heal up cause it won't, torn ligaments will never heal although your knee will settle down usually. It depends on the knee but yes some people can go without surgery but your knee will never be the same again.

Tore my meniscus and ACL at the same time and I was in a straight leg brace for 6 weeks after surgery. I have relatively loose ligaments so i couldn't do much without an ACL but if you have tighter ligaments you can do pretty well. I knew a kid that didn't know he tore his ACL for 3 weeks after and he was still using his tramp, skiing and running around.

But skiing on a torn ACL isn't the greatest idea. Get it fixed and start rehabbing and you won't regret it.
Dec 18 2009 12:31PM
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ebuchan
Posts: 33 - Karma: 31
I have done it. I skied four months on a torn acl and went to windells and stuff but i would highly not recommend it. It hurts really bad and it makes you want to cry
Dec 18 2009 2:24PM
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