LDC running

Today marks 3 weeks post-surgery. Progress has been slow and gradual, but encouraging. This surgery was much more invasive than the last one and so it is taking me longer to recover, but I am still very positive and still believe this was the right decision considering the pain and discomfort I was in. My range of motion is almost back to being 100%, the ligaments around the knee are still tender from the trauma of the surgery and the incision portals are still sore. I'm not able to kneel on it just yet-which is to be expected. At this stage of rehab it is now about strengthening, which I'm predominantly doing non-weightbearing work to increase quad, glute and calf strength. I think it'll be another 10 days before I attempt any weightbearing exercises, as when I undertake some minor weightbearing work, I can feel the tenderness at the point of resection of the cartilage. Despite this I've done a fair amount of walking over the past week, while in Japan, which the ...

Pre-op. Reassuring arrow Had my much (not) anticipated knee surgery last Friday, today is Day 4 post surgery and I thought it was time for an update. I had my surgery done at BMI Priory Hospital in Edgbaston, under Marcus Green. Mr Green has been my Orthopaedic Surgeon on four occasions now and I trust him completely with my knees and getting be fit and back to running. I had experienced a teat in my left knee almost 10 years ago and he successfully got me back running. That knee is absolutely fantastic and has been very strong since. With my right knee, it is common that if you have had a tear in one knee, you are at a higher risk for having a tear in the other knee. The likelihood is that I just have cartilage that is prone to this type of injury and given a childhood of playing ice hockey and football into my 30s, probably didn't help with their condition before getting into running. That being said, my current tear seemed to develop some time in the past couple of years...