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2025: Quick ACL/HTO update
current challenges are hopping side-to-side (the knee doesn't like that one bit and properly moans about it); hopping down from height; and
ejg054
Feb 9, 20254 min read


Sometimes you gotta break dem rules!
Finding your spark again after 14 years of injury rehab and recovery
ejg054
Jul 11, 20244 min read


ACL madness: The post I wasn't going to post
I'm actually posting this update a full five weeks after I wrote it. I just discovered it, sat on my desktop, while wondering whether I...
ejg054
May 27, 20244 min read


ACL/HTO blog: The irony of misalignment
When you undergo surgery to treat an injury, how do you know you're on the same page as your medical team re target outcomes? A random...
ejg054
Apr 12, 20243 min read


HTO/ACL update: Finding my stride
I don’t have any concerns about the osteotomy, the challenges now lie in the ACL rehab (again!)
ejg054
Mar 5, 20244 min read


HTO update: Ask the awkward questions
If the hyperextension is back - so not going to be part of my marginal gains - and the ACL is lax - it would have been useful to know
ejg054
Feb 6, 20245 min read


HTO Wk 7.5: Movement is medicine
Had another physio appointment on Wednesday and things are going pretty well
ejg054
Nov 17, 20233 min read


HTO Wk6: Braceless, next steps (ha) go crutchless
After the confusion over the official 'brace free' day, I jettisoned the brace - morning, noon and night - on Monday and so far, so...
ejg054
Nov 8, 20234 min read


Week 5: Keeping the groundhog at bay
Just over 5 weeks post-HTO at time of writing and two main themes driving this week: Brace on or off? Keeping the groundhog at bay The...
ejg054
Nov 1, 20232 min read


Operation Change the Narrative: Out the other side (and a bit of drama, just for good measure)
Recovering after HTO surgery and adding a little drama to proceedings
ejg054
Sep 28, 20235 min read


New year, new update... tennis, braces and food for thought
It has been a while since my last post as not a lot to report but those of you who’ve been following this blog for a while will know that...
ejg054
Jan 6, 20226 min read


A combination of cock up and calamity
I should start this post by acknowledging that my ACL journey hasn't, in the truest sense of the word, been a calamity. True calamity is...
ejg054
Mar 30, 20176 min read
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