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Broken Leg rehab

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Quinn_Davis
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I got a compound fracture about 7 weeks ago and the doc says I should be able to ski in around 2 weeks. However he was saying that I should be careful of injuring my acl because of muscle atrophy. If you have experience with breaking your leg is there anything I can do beside physical therapy to help strengthen my acl back to its norm. Also how worried should I be about injuring my acl I figured I would take it easy for like 2 weeks back on snow and then start going back to normal.

Thanks
Nov 23 2015 6:32PM
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Spagett+
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Tbh eat other peoples legs and get the power from them, i think thats what people usually do in ur position.
Nov 23 2015 6:34PM
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Julius_Steezer
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Walk it off?
Nov 23 2015 6:35PM
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Bogs
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I've done both tib/fib fracture and torn my acl.

You can't strengthen an acl. You can strengthen the muscles around the acl to help protect the acl. I assume these are the sorts of exercises your physical therapist is giving you? So do what they say, and just extra if you want to do more. But ask about doing extra, there's a reason they are giving you a certain number of exercises/reps to do. If your therapist isn't giving you exercises designed to re-strengthen atrophied muscles, well...get a different physical therapist.

As far as skiing goes, I was about the same time line as you, was told I could ski again about two months after breaking my leg. If your experience is anything like mine was, you're going to have to take it pretty easy this season. Skiing bumps was pretty painful that first season, and jumps were out of the question. Even 6 years later, my leg still hurts if I ski bumps hard for a while. Maybe you'll feel completely fine, but you may not be able to ski as hard as you normally would this winter.
Nov 23 2015 7:00PM
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Jake_La
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Im not sure if op needs rehab for his leg or something else...
Dec 1 2015 7:19PM
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