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2025: Quick ACL/HTO update
current challenges are hopping side-to-side (the knee doesn't like that one bit and properly moans about it); hopping down from height; and
ejg054
Feb 94 min read
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Another a-knee-versary: HTO one year on 🎉
So here it is, one year on from HTO surgery. 12 months on, I can say one thing for certain: The knee is definitely more stable than pre-HTO
ejg054
Sep 25, 20247 min read
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HTO/ACL 11 month update - summer holiday hiatus (AKA office chair racing and the return of monkey business)
11 month HTO update - summer holiday hiatus (or office chair racing and the return of monkey business)
ejg054
Aug 26, 20244 min read
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Sometimes you gotta break dem rules!
Finding your spark again after 14 years of injury rehab and recovery
ejg054
Jul 11, 20244 min read
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ACL/HTO blog: The irony of misalignment
When you undergo surgery to treat an injury, how do you know you're on the same page as your medical team re target outcomes? A random...
ejg054
Apr 12, 20243 min read
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HTO/ACL update: Not quite the six-month update I was hoping for 🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️
Sometimes there are no words
ejg054
Mar 25, 20242 min read
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HTO/ACL update: Finding my stride
I don’t have any concerns about the osteotomy, the challenges now lie in the ACL rehab (again!)
ejg054
Mar 6, 20244 min read
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HTO update: Ask the awkward questions
If the hyperextension is back - so not going to be part of my marginal gains - and the ACL is lax - it would have been useful to know
ejg054
Feb 6, 20245 min read
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A-knee-versaries, hyperextension and heels
At the time of writing, it’s the day after Facebook kindly reminding me that it is 7 years since the RevACLr officially failed
ejg054
Jan 23, 20244 min read
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HTO Christmas update: Fun, physio, festivities (and hope)
As Christmas Day marked exactly three months since my HTO surgery, it seems like a good time for a progress update. Physio Normal not...
ejg054
Dec 29, 20236 min read
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HTO Wk 7.5: Movement is medicine
Had another physio appointment on Wednesday and things are going pretty well
ejg054
Nov 17, 20233 min read
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HTO Wk6: Braceless, next steps (ha) go crutchless
After the confusion over the official 'brace free' day, I jettisoned the brace - morning, noon and night - on Monday and so far, so...
ejg054
Nov 8, 20234 min read
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Week 5: Keeping the groundhog at bay
Just over 5 weeks post-HTO at time of writing and two main themes driving this week: Brace on or off? Keeping the groundhog at bay The...
ejg054
Nov 1, 20232 min read
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HTO update: Follow ups and OCN Jail Break Week
Well I guess the fact this is closer to a four-week update than a three-week one tells its own story. Lots has happened, lots going on....
ejg054
Oct 21, 20238 min read
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Operation Change the Narrative: Out the other side (and a bit of drama, just for good measure)
Recovering after HTO surgery and adding a little drama to proceedings
ejg054
Sep 28, 20235 min read
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Operation Change the Narrative: The Big Day Arrives
Finally, the day for Operation Change the Narrative arrives
ejg054
Sep 28, 20232 min read
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Post of thanks
Post of thanks to those who’ve helped get me this far
ejg054
Sep 24, 20231 min read
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All original parts
Sat looking at a blank page realising it's less than one week now until Operation CTN gets underway and thinking I really ought to blog...
ejg054
Sep 19, 20234 min read
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Feeling the fear (and doing it anyway?)
So today marks one month until my surgery date. Sh1t is beginning to get a bit real. While I’m glad there is another avenue to explore...
ejg054
Aug 26, 20234 min read
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Operation 'Change the Narrative' - all systems go 🎉
After two consultations and three sets of imaging, I went back to see the surgeon today to finalise the plan for what, from here on in,...
ejg054
Jul 31, 20235 min read
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