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Created On: 09/13/2009 01:33 PM

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 06/04/2012 07:10 AM
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Jeniffer

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You should surely ask your doctor about your situation and solve it out so that you can easily live your life and perform daily activities.
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 05/13/2011 05:41 AM
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nathanappasamy

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Hello everybody,



I am looking for people who have had Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction on at least one of their knees to take part in a study focusing on the effects and impact of ACL Reconstruction surgery on someone's Athletic Identity.



As someone who has had multiple knee surgeries, I am very interested in the psychological effects of such mobility impairing surgery and do not believe there has been enough research undertaken in the field. The hope for this study (which is part of an MSc in Psychology) is to provide a greater insight into the short term and longterm effects of ACL reconstruction on a person's sense of Self and Identity. If you have had ACL reconstruction surgery and would like your experiences to count towards our understanding within the field, your contribution is of value.



If you would like to take part in the study (which should take no longer than 15 minutes to complete), please click on the below link for further information. Alternatively, copy and paste the link directly into the address bar of your browser. If you know of anyone who may also be interested, then I would be grateful if you would notify them of this opportunity to participate:



https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/NNAquestionnaire



If you have any questions (which are not answered by the information sheet, after clicking on the link), please contact me by email at u1037913@uel.ac.uk, and I'll be happy to help.



Nathan Appasamy
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Hello I got my left knee dislocated in a basketball game some years ago. The physiotherapy exercises was not successful in stabilizing the unstable kneecap, so they recommended me to do an operation, to which I against better knowledge agreed to. This was when i was 17 so i didn't know a whole lot of physical exercise methods. The operation moved the patella tendon's attachment lower for the purpose of stretching it. I had the operation, recovered and now my knee is in pretty good shape, however recently a problem has arise. Firstly, since i started to do a lot more serious physical exercise i have learned that the physiotherapy i received was more or less worthless in terms of stabilizing the patella. In fact, the training i'm doing now is so effective that the patella tendon apparently has stretched so that i now have a feeling that it's being pulled in the other direction, medially. So now the knee feels unstable but not because of a loose patellatendon, but because of a stretched one and a faulty placed attachment. Or atleast that what's my theory is. So, anyone attentive might reach the conclusion that maybe i would have been better of if i never did the operation, and instead did my own physical training. I agree with that fact. However, that is not what my question is about, i would like to know what i can do now. An idea i had was to call the doctor who did the operation and ask him if he could move the patella tendon's attachment back to it's original position. That might solve the problem, however i'm not willing to take any risk at it, it is in fact an operation with months and months of recovery. So, what should i do about it? And, i'm not from an english speaking country, so don't get upset of grammatical errors. However my county is of the first world and have absolutely top class hospitals and doctors.
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