Knee Surgery
dlmorgen1601
cartilage and arthitic tissue. If anyone out there has been through this
operation--how long before you were able to run again? Is this the end of my
running days?
Dave in Texas
WILLIAM JONES
But think real long and hard before you let anyone do the other knee
or the same knee again.
These Surgeons L-O-V-E arthroscopy.
It's quick and brings them a nice piece of change for the procedure and
the follow-ups.
I've had both knees done and the surgeon on the first one did ok.
(However, I suspect that if I had taken a month break from running,
I would have healed without surgery)
He went in, took out some crap and got out quickly.
I was running outside in 2 months
and NYC Marathon 7 months later.
The Surgeon that talked me into
doing the other knee, however,
(results of a car hitting me while on inlines)
had an assembly line of 9 arthroscopies
scheduled the same day as mine.
He manhandled my leg and
I woke with a sore ankle.
Two months later, my knee hurt like hell when
I ran more than 1/2 mile on treadmill
or walked more than a mile on the road.
I held off another two months
and became 50lbs heavier than before surgery.
Now my knee hurts like hell when the weather is cold,
or if I'm not thoroughly hydrated, or after a short run.
I'm desperately trying to lose weight by dieting
so I can at least start a daily 3 miles on treadmill,
but when you're used to eating whatever you want
and burning it on your daily run, IT'S HARD!
A damn viscious circle!
Moral:
Stay hydrated, Eat little (less is more),
Start back S-L-O-W-L-Y!!!!!!!,
Give your body time to heal and trust IT,
before you listen to these jackass surgeons!
(BTW: The guy that did my 2nd knee
has the "Sterling" reputation!)
Oh, go swimming
and don't be a stranger to the stationery bike.
(U may not burn much on the bike, but it will
keep your knee loose.)
Good Luck,
Bill
(I can't believe that I ran Pittsburgh
and biked 2 Montaugh last year!)
"dlmorgen1601" <dlmorg...@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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Aleksi Kolehmainen
> so I can at least start a daily 3 miles on treadmill,
> but when you're used to eating whatever you want
> and burning it on your daily run, IT'S HARD!
> A damn viscious circle!
Why didn't you try doing some weight training? You could've burnt a lot of
energy and you could've even pumped up some muscle.
-- axu
--
Aleksi Kolehmainen - Helsinki (Finland)
WILLIAM JONES
I'm doing leg extensions 2x a week.
Last session, I worked up from 12 reps @ 40 lbs per leg
to 3 reps @ 100lbs per leg (failure).
But, all the machines and all the flys aren't coming close to burning what
daily and weekly LSD runs did.
And forget squats, I don't trust my knee that much yet!
BTW: there aren't too many slim weight lifters,
and even fewer marathoners have muscled torsos.
No my friend,
the only solution is duct tape.......
on my mouth!
"Aleksi Kolehmainen" <a...@REMOVEMEemail.com> wrote in message
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Aleksi Kolehmainen
> Last session, I worked up from 12 reps @ 40 lbs per leg
> to 3 reps @ 100lbs per leg (failure).
Well, you can also train your upper body, right? I believe most of us in
this
newsgroup could use some more strength in the upper body. If you don't
want to "bulk up", you can always use the high-reps and low weight
approach.
Weight-lifting really makes my muscles nicely sore for the following couple
of days and I know my body will need some extra fuel for the following
couple of days to fix the damage.
I currently have a knee-injury (just a sprain), which prevents me from doing
cycling or running so I've switched to weight-lifting. I use a three day
split
routine so that I'll get to do plenty of weight-lifting during the week. I
don't
do squats, leg extensions or hamstring curls but I still manage to get a
decent workout everyday I go to the gym.
