In the first episode of HEART: Jordan Morris, we take an all-access look at Morris’ season-ending injury and his road to recovery for 2019.
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My mother actually has a torn ACL, that takes a long time to heal.
We are waiting for you Morris, we have not forgotten you. Perhaps your recovery journey was no fun, but I am sure it made you stronger, optimistic and confident. I have the feeling you will be back before this season ends. Your determination will help you recover faster but be gentle and patient with yourself 💕⚽😀
I tore my patellar tendon right out of the bottom of my kneecap with no damage to ligaments or menisci. Knee buckled missing a step going down steep stone stairs in Jerusalem, popped halfway down and landed square on the knee (no tumbling). It was very painful. Knee was hyperflexed on landing and kneecap notably dislocated upward. I strained most of the quadriceps tendons (medial worst) in the fall as well. THe repair surgery notably aggravated the strain on the medial quadreceps tendon and muscle (I have unbalanced quad strength, lateral regarded as very overdeveloped, causes kneecap mistracking). I am 2 weeks post-surgery today.
Most cause of patellar or quadriceps tendon tears without prior tendonitis I've seen on YouTube are ladder falls and stunts gone wrong.
I Can full weight bear with brace but not supposed to put any weight on it (high weight and high quad-strength puts high risk on repair). I generally get around with about 50% weight bear, slow and on the toe (my big calves work with the brace to keep the knee good and rigid). I may be able to go back to full weight bear with short bursts of majority weight bear and walk on one crutch again but I'm choosing not too because unlike pre-surgery, there is surgery stuff I don't to destroy and I really want my knee to work again.
My surgery was 3.5 weeks post-injury because I was in another country and appointment times for well reputed orthopedic surgeons in America is very long (I picked Dr Cummings from TOCA, he's very good, appeared to use lots of new-tech, but boy he's got a lot of patients). Typically they like to do surgery within 3-4 days of injury for knee tendon tears. My surgery was 5 days after my initial appointment. Same-day MRI, MRI results, and MRI follow-up. No PT planned until end of the immobilization phase (6-8 weeks after surgery) but I've been doing my own interferential and ultrasound on it.
Can't wait till he's back I know he'll be back stronger than ever!
God I love that guy
When he comes back I honestly don't think it's possible for us to lose
Love you man 👍 can't wait to see you back
Injury will allow you to redefine your game, please consider changing a lot of your game… Can't rely on fitness only, this isn't Stanford where you just use your speed. I only say this because this player has more potential than what he has been doing, and with that type of injury you have to change your style or you'll just keep getting yourself hurt. I would even suggest playing center back.
I'm 8-weeks post-op from my patellar tendon rupture. I'm doing very well. I am semi-normal walking, still some hobble left, but am bending knee under load. No longer wearing extension brace (not OK'd by doctor, but passive OK from PT), wearing kneecap mis-tracking brace instead as that has gotten much worse with the injury (kneecap subluxaton brace is more pain relief and more stability than hinged extension brace). I can easily do 3 sets of 20 straight leg raises and can do leg extensions and controlled curls (on my own PT don't want me doing these, not hurting if I do them slow). I am doing mini-squats, injured leg single leg balances (10-15sec without touching box or coming down on other foot). ROM is not great, currently only 75 degrees. Would have been worse and didn't start knee bending on my own at 4 weeks (this doctor is zero early-motion, never bend knee never use quads for six weeks; there are rehab protocols online that start passive motion after 1-2 weeks). Doing light step-ups in rehab too, but my weight prevents me from doing these fully unassisted from good leg (bottleneck is not strength, its pain, and shaking/shuddering, body wants to overcome the control loss by using a burst of power but that is very painful, PT wants slow and controlled).
Doing physical therapy at Center for Athletic Performance Chandler Location. Tons of ACLs here, including a guy that trains with the Phoenix Rising.
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