Long Rehab After Soccer Injury
Right away I didn't know it was torn, when I fell to the ground I did hear a sound that actually sounded like a ripping of paper, it was scary. I didn't get put in for the rest of the game. I could w…
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Tennis Injury From Footwear
The serve was short, I went to hit it and my knee was twisted funny. I tried to catch myself with my right foot, but turned my ankle over instead. I fell to the ground, almost deliberately. I felt a …
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Some Injuries Can't Be Avoided
As soon as I tore my ACL, I fell to the ground face down with my right leg (the torn ACL leg) bent. I was screaming loud and crying loud- mostly because I knew I wasn't going to play soccer again. My…
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Don't Wait! Get it Checked Out
Right when it happend I didn't cry...I was just freaking out because I knew something was wrong. My knee went numb and started to tingle. I got off the field after about a min by the help of my coach…
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Precautions Didn't Work
The first time, my ACL was torn, I did not know what exactly had happened. I figured it couldn't be that bad since all I did was pivot. I was kind of concerned because less that a year before that, m…
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Use Caution as a Weekend Warrior
As I stepped on my right foot, I heard multiple pops and then my left leg automatically came over to support me and somehow that leg got caught on the turf and I heard more pops as that ACL was torn.…
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Kickball Injury
I had no idea what was happening, I actually thought my knee was broken. My left leg slipped from under me and my right leg turned inward. It felt like my knee "popped" out of socket and with a sligh…
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Dog Attack
I did not know why I could not get up on my own or even walk on it when I was helped up. After resting for a little while at home, knowing I would miss another day of school, my mother told me to get…
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As If Tearing One ACL Wasn't Enough...
When my left ACL was torn, I had no idea. I expected to get back in the game, and when I couldn't put full pressure on it I was more mad then worried. A couple days later I had a MRI and found out I …
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Soccer Star Goes Down
At first my trainer told me it was either a slight tear or a sprain but that i should get a MRI. When we got the results that i had completely torn my ACL and partially torn my meniscus, i was devast…
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Soccer Injury
At first my trainer told me it was either a slight tear or a sprain but that i should get a MRI. When we got the results from it i was devastated. It was about to be my best year. Varsity soccer and …
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Ever Play Netball?
After the initial pain wore off, I tried to continue but the classic symptom occurred, my knee gave way when I tried to jump straight up from a standstill.I couldn't diagnose the injury, but I knew i…
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Use Caution As You Get Older
I did think something was wrong. The first step was to get the X-ray done and it did not show any fracture.My sixth sense told me that I should go for an MRI which I did within 48 hours and it clearl…
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Military Training
My knee popped and gave way underneath me. I didn't know I had torn my ACL, I just thought I had sprained or strained my knee. As I went to stand up my knee just gave out and I couldn't support any w…
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Tumbler Took a Tumble...
I was tumbling one day for the girls and they wanted to see a flying squire. Which in real terms is an Ex-out. I landed perfectly. It's one pass I've done a thousand times. But the second I went to t…
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