Knee Injury!
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Knee Injury!
I recently injured my knee snowboarding, and I was just wondering if any of you have had a similar experience. Do knee injuries come back to haunt you when back on the bike? I don't really know what's wrong with it yet, doctors have flip-flopped from acl tear to fracture and back. How long has it taken you guys to get back riding after an injury like this? I've got a 24 hour race coming up soon, hope I can make it.
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I tore my ACL on January 2nd. The one activity the surgeon said I could do was ride a bike. It is all pain tolerant. I rode for 50min this weekend with little added pain and will do that every other day going forward. Other than a little swelling and some pain under the knee cap, I had no lasting effect.
Depending on your severity, a 24 hour bike ride will tax good knees.
Depending on your severity, a 24 hour bike ride will tax good knees.
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You've got rehab coming up.
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The first exercise my PT gave me following ACL repair was riding a stationary bike.
24 hour race with a bum knee sounds like a recipe for diasater, but that's just me.
You will likely need an MRI to diagnose the tear.
good luck.
joel
24 hour race with a bum knee sounds like a recipe for diasater, but that's just me.
You will likely need an MRI to diagnose the tear.
good luck.
joel
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Yeah, I got an MRI after the X-Ray came out clean for fractures... Of course, I had been riding the stationary bike per the doctor's instruction based on the assumption that it was my acl when he called to say that he now thought it was a fracture....