rfaddis’s AchillesBlog

The only part that rings false to me is “By his own admission the ortho was treating me more conservatively than normal because of my re-rupture history.”

This knee-jerk is very common, but every attempt to back it up with evidence fails miserably. Holding a patient back longer in a cast makes the Doc feel better, and may even make the patient feel better, but it does NOT seem to decrease the risk of re-rupture. If anything, it seems to do the opposite. Facts are funny that way.

Your first rehab was going well, when you made a risky bet, betting on a piece of furniture that wasn’t worth the bet. Bad luck, but bad stuff happens. It wasn’t your whole rehab schedule that was at fault, it was just one unfortunate move — a move that almost didn’t happen. Lots of us had similar “near misses”, and only a few of us actually re-rupture.

The fact that your AT tore in a new (and conventional) location suggests to me that a good modern non-op protocol might have worked just as well as surgery. We’ll never know, and we’ll probably never even have a good study to guide our guesses. But this is all academic now, and surgery usually works

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