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Knee Surgery

By Dougal | Published: July 12, 2008

About 16 or 17 years ago, I injured my knee in a job-related incident. Being young and stupid, and not really understanding insurance and workers compensation very well, I never got around to doing anything about it, beyond using crutches for a while until I could walk without them again. My doctor at the time recommended that I get it scoped for a better look at what the damage was, but like I said, I was young and stupid, and so I put it off.

As a result, over the years my knee has mostly been okay, but occassionally it would “lock up”, requiring me to do odd manipulations of my knee joint to “unlock” it. [...]

Posted in Personal | Also tagged acl, Health, injuries, injury, ligament, mri, sports injury, surgery, therapy, torn acl | 6 Comments

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