ionacht
06-19-09, 1:57 pm
I'm curious how many people here have had Lateral Release surgery to correct patella tracking issues and what your results were. I'm not asking for any kind of medical advice, just personal experience and how your lifting was/wasn't affected post-op.
Backstory:
I blew my knee out training for my first PL comp about a year ago. (Oddly enough it was moving my crap to a new house and not in the gym at all.) MRI showed partial tears in the MCL, ACL, tendon, basicly everything was hit as my patella dislocated lateraly. No surgery, did "traditional" rehab under supervision of my doc, and by March of this year felt that eveything had tightend up enough to start planning my return to heavy PL training.
Jump to present time: I had the same thing happen 2 weeks ago playing ball with my boy. MRI showed no tearing this time (guess everything was still pretty loose) but my doc wants to do Lateral Release surgrey to correct my apparently lateraly tracking patella.
So anyone had this kind of procedure? Did you notice it help/hinder your lifting post-op? Did you find that certain excercises worked better for re-hab?
Backstory:
I blew my knee out training for my first PL comp about a year ago. (Oddly enough it was moving my crap to a new house and not in the gym at all.) MRI showed partial tears in the MCL, ACL, tendon, basicly everything was hit as my patella dislocated lateraly. No surgery, did "traditional" rehab under supervision of my doc, and by March of this year felt that eveything had tightend up enough to start planning my return to heavy PL training.
Jump to present time: I had the same thing happen 2 weeks ago playing ball with my boy. MRI showed no tearing this time (guess everything was still pretty loose) but my doc wants to do Lateral Release surgrey to correct my apparently lateraly tracking patella.
So anyone had this kind of procedure? Did you notice it help/hinder your lifting post-op? Did you find that certain excercises worked better for re-hab?