Ruptured patellar tendon!

[steele31]

I ruptured my patellar tendon about 5 weeks ago. For those who don't know what that is, I ripped my patellar tendon totally off my kneecap and my kneecap shot up into my quad. I needed surgery to reattach it and have been laid up since.


It gets better everyday and I've started to get some range of motion back, but it still sucks.


Has this happened to anyone here and if so how well did you recover after surgery? I won't be squatting/deadlifting for a while :-(

 

[buffut1]

Yep, been there, done that. Was on crutches for 6 weeks, in a brace for about 3 months. It took me a full year before I felt like I could really push it at the gym. When they reattached, did they use your own tendon or replace it?

 

[steele31]

Yes they snipped off the damaged/frayed ends of the snapped tendon and stitched it all back together.
My right knee was never the same, and my kneecap ended up staying about an inch+ higher than it was originally.

Worse news, I snapped my LEFT patella tendon on 2/25/10 coming down some stairs and slipping on a step. What is the deal with me snapping tendons??

sigh.....

 

[footdoc]

you should never do squats again. maybe the sled but that's a year or more away