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Old 27-12-2007, 12:19 PM
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Re: Partial ACL tear - no surgery

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Originally Posted by mouk786 View Post
I suppose the essential questions are can I :

a) go back to a near normal knee without surgery but with physio
b) can i get back to some sort of level of playing football without surgery
a) Depends on the extent of the tear and which fibers are damaged
b) This is possible although you will always be at more risk of further injury than prior to the recent tear. Surgery will provide perhaps a reduced risk or reinjury but the functionality and dynamic movement "might" be better without.

As I read in another post somewhere a surgeon wrote "The is no condition so bad that cannot be made worse with surgery". This is something worth thinking about.
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