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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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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 rehab: How do you know it's time to give up?
There’s much commentary on the importance of having physio tailored to your own situation - I have - if only I was getting anywhere with it
ejg054
May 30, 20246 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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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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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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Knee rehab to prehab
One of the things that ultimately forced me to seek the Second Opinion was that every time my knee gives way completely, it takes around...
ejg054
Jul 9, 20233 min read
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Time flies when you're having…fun?(AKA Second Opinions pt2)
They say time flies when you’re having fun so, with a whole two weeks to wait for my follow up (I know, that’s nothing), I threw myself...
ejg054
Jun 20, 20235 min read
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Second opinions (chronic ACL deficiency) pt 1
After putting it off for three years and trying to convince myself I could live with the chronic ACL deficiency and the associated knee...
ejg054
Jun 19, 20233 min read
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