Hunting after Surgery

[Slade]

Hey Everyone,

I'm fairly new here, but this seemed like the best place to post this question. If you had surgery, specifically on the knee, how long did you wait to begin training for the mountain, and how long before you were back on the mountain? I am having surgery on my knee in two weeks, and have a hunt in Colorado planned for September, so I'm hoping I'll have time to not only attend the hunt, but to train enough for it as well.

 

[Ross]

You can say I have a little experience with 10 surgeries on right knee and two rebuilds What are you having done? If miniscus give 1 month if acl would give 6 months before hitting the mountains with limits

 

[ianpadron]

Sounds like an even better question for a Doctor haha

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[5MilesBack]

The toughest one I had was surgery in March to repair a torn patellar tendon, and a hunt that October. I'm not going to lie to you.......that hunt was painful. But there was no way I wasn't going, even without the doctor's blessing.

 

[Slade]

I'm going in for a torn meniscus, partially torn patella, and then to have a broken piece of my tibia tubial removed and a graft possibly added. The nurse sounded as though I'd have no problem going back to work within a week and am only scheduled for 6 weeks of PT. I'm sure my Doc could tell me generic medical guidelines, but I kind of wanted your guys input that have had surgery, since you were back on the mountain and lived it.

 

[cowboy]

There are a lot of variables. How good of shape (muscle tone) are you going into the surgery? How dedicated are you going to be in re-habbing after surgery? Etc. Etc. We all are in different stages of shape, we all have different rehab dedication and tolerance for pain.

I'm having a total knee replacement 1st week in April and fully intend to be in the mountains in Sept.. After hearing it was time for a new knee I booked an appt. with the physical therapist that was going to be doing my rehab and told him in no uncertain terms he had 2 jobs (1) Get me in the best pre-op condition as was humanly possible and (2) He had 6 months to get me up to full speed.

Time will tell if I'm man enough to pull it off.

 

[Ross]

Good luck on the recovery that is a lot of working parts cowboy I would like to hear how things go and specifically how your hunting is after your recovery as one day that will be me good luck as well

 

[Slade]

Wow, what is the timeline for recovery on a total knee replacement normally? Also, if you don't mind me asking, what happened that made you require the total knee replacement?

 

[Slade]

Hopefully recovery goes well, I will update on how soon I am able to resume training and then hunting. I definitely want to be ready for turkey season in April, so that is the short term goal for recovery.

 

[Felix40]

I've had two acl replacements. Both times I was down for basically 6 months before I could start running again. Biking was the best way to get exercise during that time. I found that my knee was sore and stiff for a couple years after the second one. It was bad enough that I was almost wishing I didn't have surgery. Then I found the squat rack and I really haven't had any knee pain since. I've hurt it a couple times since but I'm certain that the weight training has saved me from having to go back under the knife. It will never be 100% again but there's not anything I would be afraid to do.

 

[Slade]

I had my surgery last Wednesday, and all went well. They didn't end up having go do anything to my meniscus once they were in and saw it. They had to remove two pieces of bone, one of which they cut through my patella tendon to retrieve. They also removed a fatty sack that had grown between the broken piece of bone and tibia, and removed my bursa sack. The doctor said I should be pain free in 6 weeks. I am currently not taking any pain medication and am already only using one crutch, so I believe I'll be good to go this fall!

 

[Rockchuck]

I hope you recover well! I have my 3 month post op for my acl surgery tomorrow. It still hurts a bit at times and still is weak but is coming along. I really underestimated how fast my muscles would emaciate over the first couple weeks.

I hope we both end up ship shape for the mountains this fall!

Good luck!