Originally Posted by
eippo1
Wow, after breaking my kneecap, the doc finally gave me the go ahead to start bending my knee. I can't believe how much my left quad has withered away in 3 weeks. My right quad measures 19.5 inches and my left is only 16.5 inches. It looks really weird right now because my left calf didn't diminish very much. It also looks weird because the knee is still swollen.
The same thing happened to me 20 years ago (broke my patella, and as a result, the quad atrophied), and it's never been the same since then (size or strength), despite lots of physical therapy and sports (in high school, I wrestled and ran track and cross country; since then I've made it through a police academy and now I've started doing triathlons). Good luck.