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[QUOTE="JJmxr, post: 693120, member: 16723"] Thanks for the replies! The surgery went well for the most part, and by that I mean the Dr. had hoped that the meniscus would have healed on its own (which I guess is very possible for kids, but not for us adults) and it did partially, but he still needed to use a few sutures on it. He also put an extra screw in the tibia which he wrapped the ACL sutures to as an additional anchor. I am a little fuzzy on why and how of this, but he did say it was not something he would do to a normal Recon. but he felt that it would give a little more safety factor to someone like us MXers. I am glad I posted this because I did not know about the vulnerable stage of the graft that you guys described, and it made for interesting comments. I did know that there are quite a few grafts that fail within 5 years, but I didn't know that 15% of the people whose grafts hold past 5 years will have the surgery again. This is kind of depressing, but I guess there is no use sweating it. Another thing that he said was that surprised me was that he felt that the partially torn meniscus was of more concern to him than the ACL itself. He said the long term effects of it had in his opinion greater consequences. I guess you can actually live a pretty normal (non-sports) life with a torn ACL, but a damaged meniscus is a different story. He has the straight leg brace plus crutches this week, looses the crutches next week, and should return to an ACL brace the week after. He doesn't want him in PT until after he sees him again on Monday because he wants to make absolutely sure that everything is as it should be before he starts messing with it. He is at this point ok with riding braced at 3 months, but I will probley make him wait until 5 to be sure. My son is a pretty fast "B" rider, but not fast enough to where I think it is worth the risk. He did tell him to enjoy this week because the PT he is going to put him through is going to be grueling. James- I also misunderstood what you were saying, and I agree 100% that the graft itself will always be a bit weaker. Carnage- I am interested about the Patella issues you had, please do tell. Finally I really hate to go here as its been beat to death on this site, but I had to ask if a brace would have prevented the injury. He said it MAY have prevented the ACL damage, but not the meniscus injury. He sited a recent study of a thousand athleats (no MX), half braced, half not, and there was no difference in injury rate. He did admit though that we are subject to greater forces than other sports, and as long as we trained without the brace so the knee could strengthen, he felt they couldn't hurt. He said the bottom line was that odds are, even braced he would have still been in the same place. That really helped out a parent who has been beating himself to death about being too cheap to drop the 500 on braces. I will be buying them now though! [/QUOTE]
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