Ski Sine Fine
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I am wondering if anyone has experience skiing with a torn meniscus w/o surgery.
I suffered a complex tear in the “anterior horn of the lateral meniscus” this summer. The knee also has minute tricompartmental osteoarthritis and other degenerative signals, but otherwise the other meniscus and all the ligaments are intact (including the long-ago reconstructed ACL). I’ve been on PT for two months. Other than the knee being a little tight at full extension and flexion, and sometimes almost negligible pain going down stairs, it doesn’t affect daily living. I went back to cardio on my cross-country Nordic track last week and no problems there. I see my Ortho doc in three weeks and will ask for his opinion on skiing this winter. I told both PT and Ortho I want to ski in December and neither immediately jumped to surgery so I am hoping he says I can ski with a brace. With that in mind, does anyone have experience skiing with a torn meniscus and what I should be careful about?
I suffered a complex tear in the “anterior horn of the lateral meniscus” this summer. The knee also has minute tricompartmental osteoarthritis and other degenerative signals, but otherwise the other meniscus and all the ligaments are intact (including the long-ago reconstructed ACL). I’ve been on PT for two months. Other than the knee being a little tight at full extension and flexion, and sometimes almost negligible pain going down stairs, it doesn’t affect daily living. I went back to cardio on my cross-country Nordic track last week and no problems there. I see my Ortho doc in three weeks and will ask for his opinion on skiing this winter. I told both PT and Ortho I want to ski in December and neither immediately jumped to surgery so I am hoping he says I can ski with a brace. With that in mind, does anyone have experience skiing with a torn meniscus and what I should be careful about?