1st Post—7 weeks out!

Posted on April 18th, 2012 by m85jd

Joined the atr club 3/2/12 playing hoops—heard the pop, felt like an elephant fell from the sky on my leg…I knew I was in trouble. Boy, I really hope that’s not the last time I play basketball. Had surgery on 3/8, 1st week in a splint and then saw my doctor a week later [...]

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  • Janus | April 20th, 2012 | 7:17 pm

    Jogging around say 5-6 months not uncommon for some people. Everyone in person I’ve spoken with says “about a year” to get back to where they were. Most of the comments here — roughly the same.

  • normofthenorth | April 19th, 2012 | 2:02 pm

    BTW, if you install the ATR Timeline widget, we’ll make better-informed comments. It’s a FAQ.

  • normofthenorth | April 19th, 2012 | 2:00 pm

    Patients and Docs are all different. ~10 months to return to sports (incl your hoops) is close to avg, I think. Around 1 yr, most of the strength and ROM that’s coming back shld be back, I think. After ~12 wks on a fast modern protocol, you can push reasonably hard as long as you’re incremental about it, to avoid setbacks.