Riding after injury.

[Triple]

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[wildchild]

welcome to the cruiser world brother, come on in the water is fine. LOL

seriously I wonder especially being your left knee, if just holding a bike up wouldn't be too much. may have to take some time off.

['73 H1 Triple]

Injury in may, I'll guess surgery 4-6 weeks later ( I tore my ACL in half and had to wait 6 weeks for surgery ) so you're only 6 months after surgery.

It's going to take a bit of work to get your knee back to where it feels "secure". It was closer to 9 months to when I felt good with my knee and probably 15-18 months to get full strength back.

Do the strength exercises along with the stretching. This is literally one of those times of "no pain, no gain" in getting your strength back.

Jeff

I tore my left ACL in half at work. Six weeks of strength exercises at PT and then reconstructive surgery using the patella of that same knee for the new ACL.

Many months of PT three times a week for about 3 hours each time.

[Dave]

take one concours 1000 and call me in the morning

[Gas Man]

Honestly. A trike would be best for you. At least thru recovery/rehab time. Their real popular now so you could do allot or find allot for them.

[101lifts2]

..... In March I deadlifted my wife's Yaris up onto jack stands (the floor jack wouldn't fit it).....

:bs: Yaris weighs 2300lbs
http://autos.yahoo.com/2010_toyota_yaris_sedan_5_spd_mt-specs/

And the highest deadlift is 948lbs.

redflip

Seriously...Eric in your condition it is going to take 1.5-2 years to get back where you can squat some decent weight again. You have to push yourself, yet understand what not to do to reinjury it. Your body is very resilient.

But yeah, get a cruiser.

[Dave]

:bs: Yaris weighs 2300lbs
http://autos.yahoo.com/2010_toyota_yaris_sedan_5_spd_mt-specs/

And the highest deadlift is 948lbs.

redflip
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Not on the corners it doesn't.

[Dave]

One rear wheel at a time and it wasn't very difficult, either. Not saying I lifted the car over my head and spun it basketball-style on my finger tips. Did the same thing years ago with an old VW Cabriolet, too.



:skep:

no



They gave me a cadaver ligament. They don't tell you who it came from, though, so it makes me wonder: do I have the ACL from a 90 year-old woman in my leg?

When your leg starts murdering you'll know

['73 H1 Triple]

They gave me a cadaver ligament. They don't tell you who it came from, though, so it makes me wonder: do I have the ACL from a 90 year-old woman in my leg?

:lol: They won't tell you exactly where it came from but there are certain benchmarks the donor must meet to be "parted out".

There are three options, cadaver "donation", patella graft and hamstring graft.

I'm about 6' and 210 lbs. The surgeon told me straight out I weighed too much and did too much lifting at work for the hamstring graft to work well. The patella graft is 150% stronger than the original ACL.

[101lifts2]

Not on the corners it doesn't.

Either the car wasn't on a level road OR he never actually lifted the wheel off the ground. To get a jackstand under the frame pinch you don't need to lift the wheel off the ground.

2300/4 is 575lbs....he can't deadlift that...If I can't..he can't. redflip

[tallywacker]

Honestly. A trike would be best for you. At least thru recovery/rehab time. Their real popular now so you could do allot or find allot for them.

Wow gasman what happened to you?

[Gas Man]

Don't get me wrong... I don't like them. But for a medical reason it's understandable. I don't like it when people buy them cause they THINK it's cool. Or "I don't want to be bothered to hold up the bike".

However, they are a big deal now a days. So you could get one, make one, or whatever and I don't believe you would have a problem with resale.

[101lifts2]

How far did you fall?

[101lifts2]

I was about 15 feet high; I slid five feet off the roof and then free-fell another 10 to the ground. Landed feet-first with both feet on the rung of a ladder.

No injuries to my other leg and no broken bones. I think the left knee caved so easily because it had been weakened from my 2002 motorcycle accident. Mixed blessing; if it hadn't imploded, I may have broken bones and/or tore up the ligaments in my right knee, my ankles, hips, etc. At least this way I still have one "good" leg.

Wish my wife had taken photos right after impact. The joint was grotesquely misplaced.

Ouch...should have hired a professional. redflip