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Message: [QUOTE="hebegebes, post: 447557, member: 25476"] holeshot, i had a cadaver tendon used for acl reconstruction on may 31. it seems to have worked very well for me. the doctor advised me that if it were his knee he would have had the patella graft. it just made more sense to me that if you don't have to harvest something from your own body, you have less healing to do. the doc said he just wouldn't feel comfortable having someone else's tissue in him if it wasn't absolutely necessary. he said the screening processes are very advanced but they can only screen for what they know exists. his rationale was that if there is some new disease (mad cow, etc.) that they don't screen for yet, you could get infected. i guess that was one chance i was willing to take. by the way, i feel fine. as for recovery... i went to PT three times and then stopped. i just felt they were taking things WAY too cautiously. i was doing some moderate hiking after four weeks, bodysurfing with fins after two months, and riding (slowly) after three months. it still gets a little stiff after some hard abuse, but i'm very pleased with how the ordeal went and glad i had it done. couple of suggestions... work on getting your range of movement back as quickly as possible. my doc has a great philosophy - he give his patients a TON of pain meds and orders them to take them even if the pain is bearable. then, while high on oxycontin and percocet, have someone push and pull that lower leg to the ranges it would normally hurt to go to. it sucks to be drugged up that much, but through this method i had FULL range of motion back after only three and a half weeks. even the doc was amazed at this. just remember, even though it hurts to push that leg while gaining back range of motion, you will not do any damage. hebegebes [/QUOTE]

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