Anyone know what's going on with her?
Anyone know what's going on with her?
She's recovering from an ACL, it takes time. Normally a year.
she needs more Carnatine...
Indoor? wrote:
She's recovering from an ACL, it takes time. Normally a year.
Most of us have ACLs. There's no recovery time from having an ACL.
The difference is that Abbey's was torn. That requires about 8 months to recover from physically to the point in which it is stable. Then there's further recovery in terms of ensuring the muscles are balanced. Unusual injury for a distance runner.
SoaciB wrote:
Indoor? wrote:She's recovering from an ACL, it takes time. Normally a year.
Most of us have ACLs. There's no recovery time from having an ACL.
The difference is that Abbey's was torn. That requires about 8 months to recover from physically to the point in which it is stable. Then there's further recovery in terms of ensuring the muscles are balanced. Unusual injury for a distance runner.
People like you deserve to be thrown off a bridge.
Should be OK with good rehab. The good news is Distance running doesn't involve cutting the way soccer, basketball or other sports do so having an ACL not being perfect shouldn't matter that much. It does take a long long time to come back from it though and just get things stable
SoaciB wrote:
Indoor? wrote:She's recovering from an ACL, it takes time. Normally a year.
Most of us have ACLs. There's no recovery time from having an ACL.
The difference is that Abbey's was torn. That requires about 8 months to recover from physically to the point in which it is stable. Then there's further recovery in terms of ensuring the muscles are balanced. Unusual injury for a distance runner.
Very unusual injury for a distance runner.
While running doesn't involve a lot of angular momentum in the muscles, doing high mileage while not being 100% sure the muscle are aligned first can obviously make you a lot more susceptible to retearing. The recovery time is one thing, but this will also require a very slow build up. I imagine and hope she will be back training full training by next year, and be back to racing in 2019. Luckily next year is a down year.
Crusted Butt 💩, Colorado USA 🇺🇸 wrote:
Should be OK with good rehab. The good news is Distance running doesn't involve cutting the way soccer, basketball or other sports do so having an ACL not being perfect shouldn't matter that much. It does take a long long time to come back from it though and just get things stable
The biggest issue for a distance runner would be even slight imbalance issues which can occur. This may even be dependent on how the new ligament was inserted. One way it is done is to take a piece of the hamstring and have it form a new ligament. This can cause some extended stress on the hamstring affected in addition to the muscles in the leg the knee was repaired in.
NOP Skeptic wrote:
While running doesn't involve a lot of angular momentum in the muscles, doing high mileage while not being 100% sure the muscle are aligned first can obviously make you a lot more susceptible to retearing.
...or compensation injuries to other parts of the body.
Do we know for sure which graft she picked for the reconstruction? If her doc used her hamstring tendon(s), she's screwed.
Graftquestion wrote:
Do we know for sure which graft she picked for the reconstruction? If her doc used her hamstring tendon(s), she's screwed.
I'm going to guess that's not public info.
I know a couple of athletes who had the hamstring procedure and they've been fine although they were not distance runners. They were able to resume their athletic careers with further issues. On the other hand, the one athlete I know personally who had the patellar tendon used has had a disastrous experience and had the surgery two or three additional times.
Crusted Butt 💩, Colorado USA 🇺🇸 wrote:
Should be OK with good rehab. The good news is Distance running doesn't involve cutting the way soccer, basketball or other sports do so having an ACL not being perfect shouldn't matter that much. It does take a long long time to come back from it though and just get things stable
Unless you're someone like Devon Allen who came back only 7 months after his ACL surgery to run 13.1 110m high hurdles. That is the fastest ACL recovery I've even seen, wonder what his recovery involved?
SoaciB wrote:
Graftquestion wrote:Do we know for sure which graft she picked for the reconstruction? If her doc used her hamstring tendon(s), she's screwed.
I'm going to guess that's not public info.
I know a couple of athletes who had the hamstring procedure and they've been fine although they were not distance runners. They were able to resume their athletic careers with further issues. On the other hand, the one athlete I know personally who had the patellar tendon used has had a disastrous experience and had the surgery two or three additional times.
I tore my ACL (hit by car while running). My orthopedist talked me into the hamstring repair, said it's worked great on soccer players, and that they got the necessary strength back. Long story short, my knee feels awesome but my hammy is definitely weak in spite of quite a bit of rehab (admittedly, I could have probably done a bit better with it if I knew what I was doing - I've had to figure out a lot on my own) and it's been 6 or 7 years since surgery. P.T.s and chiros have told me that the loss of hamstring function from this procedure is not that relevant in distance running but my gait tells me otherwise.
ACL tear also makes arthritis pretty likely later on, which would mean that hard training or high mileage might accelerate the cartilage breakdown. From what I've heard you usually get 10-15 years before arthritis sets in, but that time frame might be a compressed for a professional runner.
I agree. Same procedure for me and hamstring strength isn't what it used to be. My gait is different for sure.
I only took 4 months to come back because I used ungodly amounts of HGH.
I live in Boston near where Abbey and the other New balance girls live and see them running from time to time. Late winter/ early spring she was doing workouts and seemed to have recovered from the ACL. Mark coogan's Instagram account posted several times about it...Seems to be some other issue that's taken her out yet again. I believe in an interview she said she was planning on racing. Don't think we will ever know what her issues are as she is always very cagey when asked what her injury is, saying things like she's a little "dinged up" even when pressed by media. I don't know why she won't just say what is wrong, makes her seem more suspicious. She has a right to privacy but people would be much less interested if she just said it.
Beentheretoo wrote:
Just wow... wrote:I tore my ACL (hit by car while running). My orthopedist talked me into the hamstring repair, said it's worked great on soccer players, and that they got the necessary strength back. Long story short, my knee feels awesome but my hammy is definitely weak in spite of quite a bit of rehab (admittedly, I could have probably done a bit better with it if I knew what I was doing - I've had to figure out a lot on my own) and it's been 6 or 7 years since surgery. P.T.s and chiros have told me that the loss of hamstring function from this procedure is not that relevant in distance running but my gait tells me otherwise.
I agree. Same procedure for me and hamstring strength isn't what it used to be. My gait is different for sure.
She should consult with Solinksy
I've seen her running in Boston along the Charles River a couple times recently
Was she moving well?