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[QUOTE="savage, post: 608900, member: 42747"] I'm just getting into dirtbiking but snowboarding is my winter passion. While I have been lucky and have original knees at 39, I know way more people with ACL surgeries than ones that haven't had it done. My wife got her ACL done in January. The biggest thing you can do is get a CPM (continuous perpetual motion) machine that you set up at your house before you get your surgery. When you get out of surgery, you will probably go home a few hours later and strap yourself in. The machine slowly moves your knee, from 0 to 40 degrees. every day you up it 10 degrees until you get it to 125 degrees. Get your Orthopedic to write a scrip for it for three weeks, don't just do it for 10 days. And get your anestesioligist to give you a block prior to the surgery. It will entirely numb your leg from 12-36 hours. You'll have that knee moving well before you can feel it. Be on the machine every waking hour and preferably even when you sleep. Hopefully there isn't any meniscus reconstruction or you cant put any weight or walk for 6-8 weeks. In any event, you're looking at 9 monthes of no piviting sports: skiing, tennis. Dirt riding should be scaled back to where if you ride before the 9 month mark, you don't want to crash or a pivoting injury could put you right back in surgery again. The CPM is a new advance in the last 7 or so years, and healing now is way better and faster with this technique. Good luck with your knee [/QUOTE]
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