You can walk fine with an ACL tear, if there is any damage to the meniscus or

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Aug 20, 2014
3:49:53pm

cougaman

the MCL, then that's a different story. A few hours later, when the swelling increased, its a different story.

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picture of the stress test on the field of Jamaal

cougarmanguy

8/20/14 3:23pm

Who's they? I wish a legit source would come out and say he's fine

AFcoug7

8/20/14 3:24pm

its been on a few tweets. Some shared below. I will look

cougarmanguy

8/20/14 3:24pm

usually, you can't walk around on an ACL tear, right?

TSH_Rapid_Resp_Team

8/20/14 3:24pm

You can walk, just not well

Indy Coug

8/20/14 3:26pm

When my son tore his, he played basketball the next day.

Belboz

8/20/14 3:30pm

Yup, this. My brother played hoops a few times with a torn ACL

Tricky

8/20/14 4:26pm

When I blew mine out playing basketball I had to be carried off the court.

jlm252

8/20/14 5:11pm

Yeah, it sounds like the severity varies quite a bit.

TSH_Rapid_Resp_Team

8/20/14 5:12pm

you probably had additional damage.

Belboz

8/20/14 5:57pm

Tear =/= severed.

TSH_Rapid_Resp_Team

8/20/14 6:04pm

That doesn't matter. The ACL doesn't have sensory fibers, so you can tear your

cougaman

8/20/14 6:11pm

well my son's was completely severed.

Belboz

8/20/14 6:20pm

Nope. They thought that maybe I had meniscus damage too, but...

jlm252

8/21/14 7:22am

100% depends on the person. I couldn't, my BIL could run w/o his acl

Cougarclaw

8/20/14 3:31pm

You can walk you just don't have any lateral support

AFcoug7

8/20/14 3:31pm

I torn my ACL a little over a year ago

jdub

8/20/14 3:32pm

BIL just had his replaced, he walked around fine after he tore it. Just couldn't

BYUCoug11

8/20/14 3:45pm

yeah you can walk.

johnnycarson

8/20/14 3:45pm

You can walk fine with an ACL tear, if there is any damage to the meniscus or

cougaman

8/20/14 3:49pm

RE: usually, you can't walk around on an ACL tear, right?

Utertuter

8/20/14 3:57pm

Some tweets said he was carted off to the locker room after...

Zak

8/20/14 3:25pm

I heard he was air lifted to the lockerroom...

Smoke Monster

8/20/14 3:28pm

Dog sled team and St. Bernards with Flasks of Rum.

BYUtka

8/20/14 3:30pm

... by three men in flowing white robes who then disappeared.

Blue Print

8/20/14 3:32pm

Did any of them ask him about his food storage?

SportsRoad

8/20/14 3:47pm

No, too busy rubbing him down with Lavender Oil and Melaluka.

BYUtka

8/20/14 3:49pm

Hopefully it was just a Paul Pierce.

IndependentGeorge

8/20/14 3:31pm

"Soccer-player" carted off or "Non-fancy-boy" carted off?

Walter Bellhaven

8/20/14 3:32pm

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Blue Print

8/20/14 3:31pm

When it comes to ACL, wait until the MRI. You almost never know until then if it

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