When I found out about my latest surgery I had a good look round the internet to try and find out as much as I could about the surgery (my surgeon was somewhat vague about the operations and the aftermath). If you've tried this you'll know there is lots of stuff out there about ACL repairs, but not a huge amount about PCL repairs, particularly surgical repairs as in most cases a problematic PCL is treated through physio rather than the knife.
I did manage to find a couple of useful (if rather scary) blogs out there, so I'd like to introduce you to:-
and
Thanks for the info guys, great stuff to read before I went in.
Skinny Gurl's story scared the bejeebies out of me as it's quite a tale, but it was comforting to then read Charles' story which wasn't quite so harrowing and as he's back playing sport within 5 months shows what can be done.
My problem at the time was I read Skinny Gurl's blog a week before I read Charles', so spent a week absolutely dreading the op and the recovery, so much so I nearly cancelled on a couple of occasions. Having been through lots of knee operations before, I know how hard the physio is, and from these accounts the physio for a PCL repair is even worse. It's very hard to go into something knowing the pain on the other side, but I think you have to keep thinking of the final outcome. Given my knee's history I know I'll probably never play competitive contact sport again, but if I can run (not jog, but proper run), play a bit of tennis and most of all be able to walk up a mountain (OK hill, we don't really get much in the way of mountains in UK) pretty much pain free then I'll be a happy man and it will all have been worthwhile. That's my goal and I keep it in sight at all times.
The moral of this story is don't be put off, don't be too scared, keep you eye on the goal and it will see you through some bad times.
Paul
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