I've had....mixed results with knee surgeries, most likely due to my age when I had them done.
First was a patellar tendon done about 20 years ago. Was pretty good for the most part. Was able to get back into sports a year later or so, but because of how my knee is I was told to always use a brace when doing major sporting activities anyway. These days it seems a bit more flimsy than it used to, and maybe a bit of arthritis kicking in.
Four years ago or so had the other knee done using the hamstring. While the doc was in there he also did an "ALL" repair, which basically took part of my IT band and made another ligament out of a part of it. It took the better part of 2 years to get to the point where I could run at all, and this was with regular physio and daily exercises, just because things were super stiff (according to the doc). Still hard for me to bend as much as i used to, and now I wear 2 knee braces just in case.
I would say the first one I was happy to get. It got me back into sports and everything went relatively smoothly. The second...I dunno. The way my knees are it would have just kept blowing up, but sometimes the stiffness irks me.
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