I blew out my ACL in high school. I hope to hell the therapy for that shit has evolved. If I had known any secrets while going thru that, the therapist could've asked me anything and I would've spilled my guts....
It heals up tight. Back in the day when it healed up, you had to stretch it and loosen it to regain the flex in your knee. Every new degree of bend you gained in that knee was a world class pain.
I swear, sitting there on that therapy table with 20-30 pounds of ankle weights strapped on and the therapist telling me we need to go down one more inch today. If she had offered me the option of just taking one good kick to the nuts and going home, I would've probably taken the nut shot.
This predates arthoscopic treatment though, so I would hope it's a bit more humane now.
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