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    Interesting that they had you immobile for 8 weeks. What was your full injury? Was it the ruptured Patella tendon? I ask because my protocol was no bracing at all, with ROM exercises starting the day of surgery.

    I'll hit the 8 week mark at the end of the month, so my PT may green light me then. Like I said, mid Jan is the goal, so sooner is a bonus. My only issue now is being careful not to over do it since it feels great. ;^)

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    Good to hear with your recovery. If you are up to 1hr intervals on stationary bike now, I bet you could handle some mtb to some level. Like I said, I jumped back into mtb at 8 weeks with no/minimal jumping again to around 12 weeks even though the repair was only approximately 70% healed and adhered at the 16 weeks. I think the early jump back to mtb made my repair even stronger and was ultimately the best thing for it and I couldn't handle another week being off of bike since I wasn't allowed to bend my knee at all for almost 8 weeks. I would say definitely start hitting the trails to some degree by 4months out with harder riding at around 6 month mark to be safe, but your body/knee will tell you what is right. Mtb was the best recovery I could do even though I ruptured the patellar tendon while doing it compared to all the PT one could do.

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    Brutal and sorry to hear about the knee James. FWIW, the doc's told me I wasn't going to be able to ride my bike at 90% at best of what I did before until at least 6 months out after my surgery last summer (2011), but was biking again about 8 weeks out when the immobilizer was off (manditory 8 weeks to let the repair adhere to bone without re-rupture or insult to surgical repair). At 4 months, I was riding at least 90% of normal and riding was the best way to get my mobility and strength back, regardless of other rehab/PT crap. I be you will be back riding at some level before you know it. Heal up man. Jon.
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