Hunting After Patellar Tendon Rupture

[WVWill]

Yeah dude atrophy is awful It doesn't matter how strong you were before surgery it always seems to win


And no need to compare, I was just trying to to give some hope of a full recovery. What your going through sucks and it's ok for it to suck. Just keeping working on it and use hunting as motivation to keep going. How much longer do you have in physical therapy?

I’m definitely learning to “embrace the suck” when it comes to recovery. It’s a slow process, but I’m seeing good results. I’m taking it slow, but the more I’m able to do the more that I want to do more!

I will probably find out more about physical therapy at my next ortho appointment. I was under the assumption that it would probably go up at least to the 6 month mark, but I guess I could be wrong about that.

 

[Westensee]

Never done a knee ligament, but did rupture my achilles a couple summers ago. One thing I wish I would have done when it happened was to find the most aggressive, sports based PT around. By aggressive, I mean someone and somewhere that is returning high school and college athletes back to their sports. Where I started got me back to walking, which I thought was all I needed and wanted. Regret that now. I did find a great PT place, but about 10 months after the surgery and unfortunately have had a lot of work to do to get back to close to what it was. Likely never will and climbing in the mountains is just tougher with a weaker calf. Just really wished I had focused more on the PT.