recovery from microfracture surgery. Surgery was a month ago. I've seen other posts, mainly by armyrunner. Any comments from runners - not other sports - who have had this microfracture on the condyle, and recovery time for return to previous level of running. I'm told to wait four months for full recovery, 6 weeks on two crutches and one week on one crutch. My quads are like spaghetti noodles, even though I'm doing pt every day of the week.
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post 10 weeks microfracture surgery. Doc. says ok to add a little resistance to the stationary bike, but getting back to running will take another two, maybe four months.
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From raffie on Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 12:21:50 from 168.30.227.72
15 weeks post microfracture surgery. My surgeon looked at an MRI of my left leg (not the one operated on in November), and said he saw a small 6 mm defect in the medial femoral condyle (smaller than the right one). He thinks there also might be a slight meniscus tear. He knows I'm a serious high-mileage runner, and worked out an agreement that if it doesn't get worse I won't need surgery, but I'll be having another microfracture - perhaps less severe than the first one anyway - in late March. I asked the doc if any other runner had had a microfracture in both knees, and he said "none." Looks like I'm lucky.
I'm more lucky than I thought. No microfracture; just a meniscus repair.
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