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Re: ACL Reconstruction / Jon Doe or Hamstring?
Posted By: Joel
Date: Friday, 5 September 2008, at 1:39 p.m.
In Response To: Re: ACL Reconstruction / Jon Doe or Hamstring? (jamesor)
Thanks for your response jamesor.
To be honest, I really don't know much about the surgeon's history. I was relying on the fact that he's the chairman of orthopedics at a respected hospital in NYC (St. Vincents). He was recommended to me by some people that are not athletic, but had knee work done.
My first visit was yesterday and it went so quickly. Not that he was rushing through it, but perhaps I didn't ask enough questions.
Because of all of Life schedules...etc. for the next 6 months, the sooner I can do this the better. So I'm a little worried about waiting too long.
It sounds like you aren't a fan of the cadaver auotgraft.
Now I'm really nervous about doing this.
> I have a auto-patellar in my right knee and an
> auto-hamstring in my left knee. I was a competitive soccer
> player and found that the hamstring took a little more time
> due to re-strengthening the hamstring muscle where the
> hamstring graft was harvested. It just took some extra time
> doing reverse single leg hamstring curls.
> There was someone here who had good results with an
> achilles allograft. I don't buy the age issue for allos. I
> think it's a matter of less work for the surgeon since he
> doesn't need to harvest anything, plus there's a markup on
> the cost of the allograft which is more profitable for
> him/her. Has your surgeon had good results with the allo on
> other competitive martial artists?
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