I’ve already scheduled the surgery and chosen allograft as the way to go, but it’s hard to be sure if that’s the right choice for me. So … I’ve been doing a ton of research these past few days and stumbled on these awesome blog entries by Eric: A Scientific Look at Autograft vs. Allograft [...]
Archive for the ‘research’ Category
16 Jul
what is an ACL injury?
I’m such a visual person so of course I had to google to see (1) what an ACL injury is (see above illustration from the ACL Surgery Recovery blog), and (2) what the inside of a knee looks like, and where the ACL ligament and meniscus are. (Found the below diagram from WebMD.com.) And did [...]
14 Jul
mri results
Got my MRI results this afternoon: – Possible complete tear of the ACL (anterior cruciate ligament); – Large tear in the medial meniscus. Before today, I had no idea I even had a meniscus! What the heck is that?! Maybe it’s time I explained how I first injured my knee. I injured it during a [...]
