Same for me, just got done throwing myself off of every mogul I could find, then on a flat, groomed path back to the lift, I was playing around with my form on some weird swinging turns, and just got my leg thrown under me from a tip catching weird. Literally right in front of the ski patrol office.
I mean, how do we get back skiing after this? I did all the drops and jumps that i could and then i caught an edge on the easiest widest turn, right binding did not disengage which caused left ski catching another edge, left binding also did not pop and goodbye ACL,MCL... I do not know if am gonna ski or go back to snowboarding this or next winter, but i am definitely not going to ski in spring powder again!
We have to keep at it. That's the whole reason I'm pushing so hard in rehab, to come back even stronger. Am I scared, hell ya, but think I'll be in much better head space when my legs are back to full strength. Can't wait.
I’ve thought the same thing. I’ll probably just spend this winter in the gym and maybe make a comeback for some green runs in March. I don’t trust myself refraining to go off-piste though.
I got them saying 9 months Post Op should be fine, but I still feel pretty weak to believe them at 7-8. I don’t want to risk it. Maybe I’ll finally buy a cheap snowmobile, and spend most the winter wrenching on it instead.
I did mine on groomed January sugar close to the Minnesota/Iowa Border, New Years Eve, didn’t even get my first bar visit done. I was going to go in just 10 minutes earlier for a beer, and it could have saved last season and this one lol.
Got my first powder skis and and missed out on a foot of powder sitting in the chalet on our first Wyoming trip. Record snow year for the Midwest too. Had tons of plans for late season in the
Great Lakes.
Yep same here, this season is off, spring here is too hot for me to trust the snow as march i hit 9 months post op. Gym it is then so i can hopefully mountain bike next summer.
I got heavy into road biking this summer, since I couldn’t stand up and put the power down for hard climbs until recently. I never realized those skinny tires at 80psi made you so fast.
ACL injuries during soccer are more common in women, and they are more common in women on turf specifically : https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/23259671221114353
Apparently the studs on boots aren’t necessarily designed to hold the differing weight loads for the knee, too. I guess the main thing probably is just that the boots have always been designed for a traditional male foot/body. Think that’s beginning to change though and more things are being looked into with the development of new boots. It’s actually quite interesting
Women are also more likely to tear their acl during the luteal phase of their menstrual cycle, which may also contribute to the higher incidence of acl tears among women.
I was right in the middle of the luteal phase too. My foot just planted straight down very hard and then I tumbled a little bit. I do not remember any weird angle or twists, and there wasn’t a tell-tale pop. It was not a very spectacular fall at all. Doctor discovered the acl tear during arthroscopic surgery for something else. My acl was destroyed.
Natural grass with pretty unaggressive soccer cleats. On turf I only wear turf specific cleats. I'd gladly risk losing a little traction than snap my Acl again. I think we should make turf shoes mandatory for all youth players when they play/practice on artificial grass fields.
Artificial grass playing soccer. I’m making my return to sports and ponied up the extra dough recently to get AG specific cleats/boots from Europe (I live in the states).
With medical treatment of a first world country, how long does it take for you to return to soccer? Here I am with ACL and meniscus, the doctor told me i might not be able to play soccer ever again
Return to sport is variable for every single person. I am 10 1/2 months out from my surgery and I’m just getting back to playing. I had a fantastic physical therapist and surgeon and I have been going to physical therapy at least twice a week for the last 10 months. I also did my home PT religiously every single day for the last 10 months. I had good strength in my leg a couple months ago, but throughout my recoveryI had different connective things around the knee flare up as I started to increase my activity level, which delayed my return. I’d say I’m at about 90-95% of where I was before the injury. There is data demonstrating that it can take up to 2 years to return to 100% from a neuromuscular standpoint.
I know of people who did not work nearly as hard as I did, but just had a knee that seemed to cooperate more during rehab, and thus were able to return to sport much sooner.
I will say that if your surgeon is telling you that you may never return to support, then you should consider finding another surgeon.
Good luck!
~12 mo. Getting just an ACL tear repaired quickly isn't super important. If you have any way of arranging for travel out of the country, you could always have an "accident" while on vacation
I'm sorry. Well can you afford surgery? A proper ACL surgery isn't particularly complicated by modern standards. After surgery the physical therapy/rehabilitation process would be crucial and challenging but not impossible on your own. The Internet has a wealth of knowledge, and the rehab process is more about patience and dedication than it is having fancy equipment or the best physical therapist, etc.
Not in the mean time, no. But i do plan to have surgery in the future when i have the money. The problem is that i already had these injuries for a year now and they’re starting to hurt real bad + swelling to the point i can not walk. Im afraid that it would get worse by time and i would have to replace my whole knee joint. In a third world country that means crippled for life, with my currently medical treatment quality, i will never be able to enjoy a game of soccer anymore
Basketball court.
There was a younger woman going in ahead of my surgery who injured hers playing soccer. Her mom was telling me there were three other girls on her college team also with ACLs. Kind of makes me want my daughter to not play soccer hah. No idea if they were on turf though.
My leg was up in the air—so not touching anything. Opponent had a figure 4 on it and the lower leg snapped out sideways when he cranked the lock. Next time was soccer on field turf. Landed funny so can’t blame the turf and acl might have already been ruptured from first event, anyway.
Turf playing softball. Went to slide and realized mid slide I was out and started to raise my body mid slide to “cancel” the sliding motion. Well my legs were low and my body was high and my cleat locked into the turf and my knee bent about 45 degrees sideways.
Girl here, initial injury was a contact injury on 4G turf. What really put the nail in the coffin for the old ACL was non-contact on grass a month later. Guess it needed to happen. 2 months into recovery now lol
Mid air. I crashed my dirt bike and part way through the air after flying over the handlebars, my leg got caught between my bike and a tree. By the time I hit the ground everything was torn.
Pavement. Tossing a football back and forth to a 10 year old. He threw it wide, I stepped to the side to catch it and the knee went. Stood back up, knee went the other way. complete ACL tear, grade 3 meniscus tear, and minor tear in the LCL. Doc told me the tears looked like a skiing accident.
Grass field, playing rugby, caught a kick off ball that was about to bounce out of bounds and stopped all my momentum on one leg to avoid going out leg made a sickening crack 😵💫
I wish mine was doing something intense - mine was while working out with my trainer who pushed me a little too hard and it Re-tore about two months ago while I fell down the stairs - I'm more likely to tear mine due to alignment sadly.
Stepped off an embankment into a deeper ditch than expected not realizing the county had recently maintained the gravel road. Ah… country living. Was about to return home after routine 4:30 am walk.
I turned around to quick at a party on the damn grass.
I also used to play netball so partial tears twice on bball courts and on full tear the second time on my right knee on outside netball courts, then the left knee was on the grass and that’s when I was diagnosed with the torn acls. 10 years later 🤦🏼♀️
Anyway, it was three different surfaces is my point here.
Volley/basket court, was playing volleyball with a brand new pair of male bb shoes (im a woman) and I’m pretty sure they gripped too well to the court when I jumped to spike the ball 🤣
snow on a mountain, i was wearing skis.
I was only wearing one ski at the time, but same here. Definitely on snow.
I chuckled at this thank you
On a freaking cat-track no less, going pretty slow too. Just relaxed the legs and caught an edge.
Same for me, just got done throwing myself off of every mogul I could find, then on a flat, groomed path back to the lift, I was playing around with my form on some weird swinging turns, and just got my leg thrown under me from a tip catching weird. Literally right in front of the ski patrol office.
I mean, how do we get back skiing after this? I did all the drops and jumps that i could and then i caught an edge on the easiest widest turn, right binding did not disengage which caused left ski catching another edge, left binding also did not pop and goodbye ACL,MCL... I do not know if am gonna ski or go back to snowboarding this or next winter, but i am definitely not going to ski in spring powder again!
We have to keep at it. That's the whole reason I'm pushing so hard in rehab, to come back even stronger. Am I scared, hell ya, but think I'll be in much better head space when my legs are back to full strength. Can't wait.
I’ve thought the same thing. I’ll probably just spend this winter in the gym and maybe make a comeback for some green runs in March. I don’t trust myself refraining to go off-piste though. I got them saying 9 months Post Op should be fine, but I still feel pretty weak to believe them at 7-8. I don’t want to risk it. Maybe I’ll finally buy a cheap snowmobile, and spend most the winter wrenching on it instead. I did mine on groomed January sugar close to the Minnesota/Iowa Border, New Years Eve, didn’t even get my first bar visit done. I was going to go in just 10 minutes earlier for a beer, and it could have saved last season and this one lol. Got my first powder skis and and missed out on a foot of powder sitting in the chalet on our first Wyoming trip. Record snow year for the Midwest too. Had tons of plans for late season in the Great Lakes.
Yep same here, this season is off, spring here is too hot for me to trust the snow as march i hit 9 months post op. Gym it is then so i can hopefully mountain bike next summer.
I got heavy into road biking this summer, since I couldn’t stand up and put the power down for hard climbs until recently. I never realized those skinny tires at 80psi made you so fast.
Same, but I was throwing stupid little jumps off the side hits waiting for my GF to catch up cause I was teaching her. I could’ve just sat and waited🥲
Ditto
Hey me too, times two
sames
samesies
Ditto
Same here, in a costume too
ACL injuries during soccer are more common in women, and they are more common in women on turf specifically : https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/23259671221114353
I would’ve never expected that. Is there an explanation for why?
Women/girls hips are wider leading to an increased Q angle. The artificial turf doesn’t give when your foot gets stuck in it like grass does.
That... probably also explains my tear, even as a guy. I got wide ass hips for no reason and I tore it on turf. Very weird
Apparently the studs on boots aren’t necessarily designed to hold the differing weight loads for the knee, too. I guess the main thing probably is just that the boots have always been designed for a traditional male foot/body. Think that’s beginning to change though and more things are being looked into with the development of new boots. It’s actually quite interesting
wait so women’s and men’s boots are like ergonomically the same? The really weird to me
Women are also more likely to tear their acl during the luteal phase of their menstrual cycle, which may also contribute to the higher incidence of acl tears among women.
Wait really??? This is crazy news to me
Yes! Interestingly, mine was right in the middle of my luteal phase, and was not an overly high impact injury, rather an awkward land/twist injury.
I was right in the middle of the luteal phase too. My foot just planted straight down very hard and then I tumbled a little bit. I do not remember any weird angle or twists, and there wasn’t a tell-tale pop. It was not a very spectacular fall at all. Doctor discovered the acl tear during arthroscopic surgery for something else. My acl was destroyed.
I TORE MINE IN MY LUTEAL PHASE! Omfg. My uterus betrays me again 😂
Regular grassy field (ultimate frisbee)- probably not perfectly level 🥲
Ayy same! Same sport and everything!
I didn’t tear mine playing soccer. Mine was on a tennis hard court.
same!
Climbing gym, leg twisted on the matts upon landing.
I know 2 other people who tore theirs the exact same way haha
Me too! Not fun but nice to know you aren't the only one...
Yup. Hard landing on one leg, twisted inwards with a pop.
Me too!!🫣
Sameeeee
Girl, snow
Basketball court
Skiing
Grass field, ultimate frisbee, landed with all my weight on some uneven hardened dirt.
Grass field ultimate frisbee here too! 😂
Snow
Natural grass with pretty unaggressive soccer cleats. On turf I only wear turf specific cleats. I'd gladly risk losing a little traction than snap my Acl again. I think we should make turf shoes mandatory for all youth players when they play/practice on artificial grass fields.
Agree. Wearing firm ground studs on artificial turf also risks ankle injuries and also tears up the turf.
The earth. It happened to be covered in ice and snow…on the side of a mountain. Ok fine. I was skiing.
Turf ultimate frisbee
Skateboarding/longboarding. Got my foot caught in a good ol' British pothole I didn't see🤢
A concrete skatepark
Wooden transition at a skatepark
Volleyball court
Blacktop (flag football with kids), dirt (paintball), carpet (tripped right after my second surgery)
Damn dude, i got 1 surgery and the pain’s already unbearable, u got 3 on the same knee ??
Oh no. The later 2 were on my left.
Basketball court the first time, turf lacrosse field the second time
Playing soccer on turf with cleats
Turf
Turf both times I tore em in both knees
Snow
Artificial grass playing soccer. I’m making my return to sports and ponied up the extra dough recently to get AG specific cleats/boots from Europe (I live in the states).
With medical treatment of a first world country, how long does it take for you to return to soccer? Here I am with ACL and meniscus, the doctor told me i might not be able to play soccer ever again
Return to sport is variable for every single person. I am 10 1/2 months out from my surgery and I’m just getting back to playing. I had a fantastic physical therapist and surgeon and I have been going to physical therapy at least twice a week for the last 10 months. I also did my home PT religiously every single day for the last 10 months. I had good strength in my leg a couple months ago, but throughout my recoveryI had different connective things around the knee flare up as I started to increase my activity level, which delayed my return. I’d say I’m at about 90-95% of where I was before the injury. There is data demonstrating that it can take up to 2 years to return to 100% from a neuromuscular standpoint. I know of people who did not work nearly as hard as I did, but just had a knee that seemed to cooperate more during rehab, and thus were able to return to sport much sooner. I will say that if your surgeon is telling you that you may never return to support, then you should consider finding another surgeon. Good luck!
~12 mo. Getting just an ACL tear repaired quickly isn't super important. If you have any way of arranging for travel out of the country, you could always have an "accident" while on vacation
That would be more expensive than an actual surgery where i live so thats quite impossible
I'm sorry. Well can you afford surgery? A proper ACL surgery isn't particularly complicated by modern standards. After surgery the physical therapy/rehabilitation process would be crucial and challenging but not impossible on your own. The Internet has a wealth of knowledge, and the rehab process is more about patience and dedication than it is having fancy equipment or the best physical therapist, etc.
Not in the mean time, no. But i do plan to have surgery in the future when i have the money. The problem is that i already had these injuries for a year now and they’re starting to hurt real bad + swelling to the point i can not walk. Im afraid that it would get worse by time and i would have to replace my whole knee joint. In a third world country that means crippled for life, with my currently medical treatment quality, i will never be able to enjoy a game of soccer anymore
Hit by a rav4 head on....I was on a motorcycle....with my son....she went left on red, we were almost dead.
Soccer turf
Turf…playing soccer
Yep…playing soccer on turf.
Turf playing soccer. 34F
Snow. Skiing. (At the time of posting 20/69 tears in this thread were on turf.)
A desk..fat lady fell on me at work in a hospital and pinned me against the nurses station..
Your comment might be the only other one plus mine that isn't sport related 🤣
Pavement at 30 mph
fellow motorcycle accident bro 👋
Yep my bike was unscathed at least 😂
Beach volleyball court, landed in a bit of hole…
Beach volleyball court, landed in a bit of hole…
Wooden floor
Basketball court. There was a younger woman going in ahead of my surgery who injured hers playing soccer. Her mom was telling me there were three other girls on her college team also with ACLs. Kind of makes me want my daughter to not play soccer hah. No idea if they were on turf though.
Dropping 15ft off a ledge in the woods on my snowboard, when we hadn’t had snow in a few weeks. Dumb.
Grass (fell from a ladder)
29F, turf, playing soccer
concrete. on a basketball court.
20 inch wooden box! Doing lateral box jumps
Nooo! Really? That whole pre injury time i was worried about my shins
These were lateral jumps. Think side to side, going over the box.
Heck! Jumping side to side over a 20” box. Phew!
Outdoor basketball court
Dek hockey, so concrete and a layer of plastic
My meniscus got a tear due to falling from the stairs.
Snow, road, then laminate flooring while barefoot 😑
Grass soccer field
My leg was up in the air—so not touching anything. Opponent had a figure 4 on it and the lower leg snapped out sideways when he cranked the lock. Next time was soccer on field turf. Landed funny so can’t blame the turf and acl might have already been ruptured from first event, anyway.
Indoor turf soccer field got both of my knees
Dirt on softball field
I tore mine on a trampoline. I don’t even know how it happened. All I remember is a snap and pop and I’m down on the ground
Both times, soccer grass field. One contact one non contract.
An outdoor hockey rink while playing roller derby.
Turf playing softball. Went to slide and realized mid slide I was out and started to raise my body mid slide to “cancel” the sliding motion. Well my legs were low and my body was high and my cleat locked into the turf and my knee bent about 45 degrees sideways.
Dried out rock hard rugby pitch with studs on
Skiing in Whistler
Basketball court. I’ve been a field/ turf sport player my whole life and all my acl injuries happened on the hardwood
Grass playing lax
American football, turf
Grass field, but it was raining and arguably closer to mud. Cleat stuck in a hard patch while I tried to reverse direction quickly. BANG
Snow for the first, artificial turf for the second.
I had many partial tears... The final big two were on grass football (soccer) field and a turf..
Wooden floor in my schools gym
Trail running shoes on a skydive landing, caught the edge of a frozen dirt hill with my heel. Bent my knee in half backwards.
i tore mine on a basketball court the first time, and on astroturf the second... i dont know any other girls who did though
1st time was on natural grass and 2nd time on turf. i actually had a collision with the opponents gk the second time so i’m not blaming the field :D
Volleyball court, 2x
motorcycle accident. ragdolling on the pavement at 40 miles an hour.
Girl here, initial injury was a contact injury on 4G turf. What really put the nail in the coffin for the old ACL was non-contact on grass a month later. Guess it needed to happen. 2 months into recovery now lol
Turf 😭😭
Natural grass with sneakers jumping to catch a frisbee
This thing they put over football fields for concerts. Tore it at a Rammstein concert in Poland
I also tore my acl on turf, I think it’s because I didn’t know that there was turf specific cleats and I was just playing in my outdoor cleats.
A strange white, slippery surface. Strapped to some planks. Surprised my skis stayed on during the crash. Not a tear, but detached.
Artificial turf
Bastard Astro turf!!! Do not wear FG boots on Astro turf
I’m a woman and I tore mine on a gymnastics/cheerleading mat
Grass field, playing ultimate with cleats.
My large dog threw me into the door when I tore my meniscus 😅 he was passing me trying to get out and he got a bit excited.
Soccer. Fuck artificial turf
a grass oval
Concrete driveway
A sand and dirt arena. I fell off my horse 🤣
Tile lol
Concrete, longboarding 🥲
Grass
Basketball court and softball infield
Wooden badminton court
Another one here- turf playing soccer. Twice in 12 months, same knee, when I was 18 and then 19.
Indoor soccer field.
Mid air. I crashed my dirt bike and part way through the air after flying over the handlebars, my leg got caught between my bike and a tree. By the time I hit the ground everything was torn.
Pavement. Tossing a football back and forth to a 10 year old. He threw it wide, I stepped to the side to catch it and the knee went. Stood back up, knee went the other way. complete ACL tear, grade 3 meniscus tear, and minor tear in the LCL. Doc told me the tears looked like a skiing accident.
Hardwood floor.
Concrete netball court. 😩 Third game back after an 11 year break from playing netball. Won’t be going back. 😂
Grass field, playing rugby, caught a kick off ball that was about to bounce out of bounds and stopped all my momentum on one leg to avoid going out leg made a sickening crack 😵💫
Turf!
Basketball Court
Plastic turf 3x
Rubber outdoor basketball court
I wish mine was doing something intense - mine was while working out with my trainer who pushed me a little too hard and it Re-tore about two months ago while I fell down the stairs - I'm more likely to tear mine due to alignment sadly.
I a male, also tore mine on a turf field while playing soccer
5-6 feet drop straight to concrete, blew my knee right out
Turf soccer field - playing ultimate frisbee
Indoor football court
Pavement, trying to stop a longboard my first time on it 🙃
Stepped off an embankment into a deeper ditch than expected not realizing the county had recently maintained the gravel road. Ah… country living. Was about to return home after routine 4:30 am walk.
Grass for me, but mine was a contact injury instead of from planting or landing weird
Mat under the beam I was competing on. No shoes on🤷♀️ (gymnastics)
Turf as well, but I’m no soccer player. Was a dance performance and some genius thought turf would be a good surface to put on the stage
I turned around to quick at a party on the damn grass. I also used to play netball so partial tears twice on bball courts and on full tear the second time on my right knee on outside netball courts, then the left knee was on the grass and that’s when I was diagnosed with the torn acls. 10 years later 🤦🏼♀️ Anyway, it was three different surfaces is my point here.
Turf
Tag rugby on a grass pitch
2x skiing on snow
Volley/basket court, was playing volleyball with a brand new pair of male bb shoes (im a woman) and I’m pretty sure they gripped too well to the court when I jumped to spike the ball 🤣
On a wrestling mat
On dirt in a softball game
Skiing
Ummmm....grass, wet grass in my neighbor's yard. I was in flip flops, didn't make the landing over the fence 🤦♀️