Comments on: Battling Back (Part 4) http://backpagefootball.com/battling-back-part-4/17786/ Mon, 20 May 2013 09:30:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Kevin Coleman http://backpagefootball.com/battling-back-part-4/17786/comment-page-1/#comment-35349 Kevin Coleman Sat, 23 Apr 2011 21:01:47 +0000 http://backpagefootball.com/?p=17786#comment-35349 Definitely the greatest comment we’ve ever had.

]]> By: Dave Smith http://backpagefootball.com/battling-back-part-4/17786/comment-page-1/#comment-35342 Dave Smith Sat, 23 Apr 2011 19:33:38 +0000 http://backpagefootball.com/?p=17786#comment-35342 Oh please, more pointless piddling gossip rubbish about Manchester City from Neil Sherwin.

If you want this site to be taken seriously maybe you should stop letting dopey little hacks turn it into their own personal blogs.

Utter tripe.

]]> By: Hamish http://backpagefootball.com/battling-back-part-4/17786/comment-page-1/#comment-34811 Hamish Tue, 19 Apr 2011 00:23:45 +0000 http://backpagefootball.com/?p=17786#comment-34811 Hey Neil,

Have just read the four parts to this blog, it is remarcable how similar your story is to my very own.
Last year in June playing amateur football in Wellington, NZ, I too twisted my knee playing after my boot got caught in a new artificial surface. Immediately got the swelling etc. but the doctor I visited advised it was just a medial ligament tear and that I too would be back in 6 weeks or so.
I did all the physio but still had very limited movement and quite a lot of pain, but was mobile enough after 2 months or so to start playing social indoor cricket. One night playing I played a shot and set off for a run only to be sent back by my batting partner, with the resulting twisting motion making me completely collapse on it in a very similar way to when i first injured myself.
The doctors again said there was little course for concern, and that it was probably still just weak. Frustration was at an all time high so I decided too on visiting a Sports Doctor specialising in this sort of thing. Immediately they said ACL rupture, however, the referred surgeon sent me for an MRI just to make sure – what an awful experience they are!
SO, after all this, injury in June and continued weakness, it was not until October that I was properly diagnosed and then Decemeber 17th 2010 that I was finally operated on.

I am now in my 18th week following surgery, and am about to start running again only now. Being just 21 my physio too has advised me I can probably start playing again August-ish, which is the ultimate goal, but in the mean time I have turned to managing a team of friends and I got back together in one of the local Wellington leagues – this has helped keep my footballing sanity, although it is sheer torture watching them play and not even being able to kick a ball about.

Anywho, best of luck for the remainder of your recovery! was great to read the experiences of another almost concurrent ACL story

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