I think the most important thing is when they do the physical therapy or they work on their own pre-surgery, they have to get in their mind that they are going to do all this again immediately afterward, and that’s a tough mental challenge to yourself because now you have torn your ACL, your knee hurts, it’s swollen, you go through this entire three- to four-week period to get ready to have surgery, you have surgery, and then all of a sudden, your doctor is telling you again, “We get to do this all over again.”
But the rehab part or the physical therapy part is just as important as the surgery itself. So in other words, if you had a patient where you just knew, you said to yourself, “I can’t do the therapy. I won’t do the therapy.” You should not have the surgery. It is that important.
The surgery outcome is dependent upon your ability to do the physical therapy and get your motion back. And most importantly is just get the strength back in the major muscle groups in your legs because you are never going to be able to go back to do those things you want to do if you don’t get that strength back.
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