JayP

Endurance Cyclist Jay Petervary, Jackson, WY


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Thursday, 05 Feb 09

Road to Recovery

Tuesdays doc appointment went well. After some mechanical tests and comparisons to my other knee the numbers suggest I am a candidate to try in rehab the knee, train the muscles, understand the mechanics, subconciously react, and work hard at all of them to do without my ACL.

Sure many people question it and would have gone under the knife immediatly and thats exactly what most doctors would suggest or do. I am not one to make quick decisions espically in a case like this, one can always have surgery but I think its way worth it to see if you can avoid it. A lot has to do with beliving in yourself and having that zen like positive feeling of knowing you can, just like that old train "I know I can, I know I can".

Yesterday I started on a PT program and will be rapidly accelerating it. As of now all the swelling has gone down, I have full range of motion, and I jumped on the fat bike last night feeling decent. There is this natural guard and firing of the muscles that sort of protects it that I am concentrating on getting rid of, 2 days of PT is already helping with that.

Time will tell, who knows I might be getting cut next week but I am feeling really good about it, my doc feels good about it, and my therapist feels good about it. 

Still have the mind set of going to Alaska but I will not jepordize myself or anybody else if I don't feel 100%.

Yukon tracksReality is this might be what one has to be prepared to do for days on end!

 

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