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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DigitalSword" data-source="post: 151128" data-attributes="member: 7892">...I also heard the good/bad news about Benny-boy.this dude has had hes knee's trashed a bunch of times, i give him alot of credit the poor fucker.and MUGGIN, thats crazy that you said that, we were bsing at work about ben and his knee and my knee, and i was like man, it sure seems that knee injuries are on the fuckin rise, like every sunday 1 or two pros get taken out, and its not just football, its other sports also.  I wonder if one day we will discover that the drive and push for elite athelticism and sport actually pushes our bodies too far at young ages making the moving parts and pieces weaker before they can evolve to keep up.I remember being 17, and not having a worry in the world, setting up for soccer for college in the cool months of november, and right before christmas i spent about 800 bucks on brand new snowboard equipment for my firts ski-club year.  three days after i order it all, its the first indoor practice for soccer, and pop, my left knee decides to do a 90 degree jig to the left.  I had never heard of ACL tears, only simple knee injuries.  And when i first saw the doc he had said that while not new, ACL tears were still significantly rare injuries and that they seemed to be growing mainly in football.  that was 6 years ago and i hadnt heard of anyone else getting an acl tear until willis mcgahee popped his.since then i can think of 20 different cases where people blow out them suckers, and those cases were much worse, the doc says im "fortunate"my doctor told me that it is a rising problem, mainly with kids becoming very active at younger ages, and that as your bones grow/heal/develop, the actual development shows how you grow, like rings on a tree.  sure as shit, he showed me these pictures of my surgery, maybe ill post them later, the acl, and all the ligaments for that matter, develop in a notch of cartilege and bone in the shape of a "u"at the ends of the tibia and fibia, a nromal knee develops a u, but my bones developed a "v" shape, which increases mobility for stability.  in other words, i was extremely flexible and agile, but , that "v" creates a scissor-like pinch when the knee is  under pressure from a wrong angle, and it cuts that ligament like a piece of ham on thanksgiving.Sweet.|DS|</blockquote>

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