Essay On Tearing An ACL

Tearing an ACL is a prevailing injury in sports, such as basketball and soccer. I tore my ACL last October, and have experienced a vast number of effects from it. Tearing an ACL causes you not to be able to participate in sports. When recovering from surgery, it uts you in a depressing mood and sometimes into depression. Knee pain is also common and is caused from the surgery. The first effect of an ACL tear is not being able to play any sport that requires movement of the lower body. Having surgery requires a minimum of six months of recovery time. During that time, your body goes through an abundance of pain. Having rehab every week wears on your knee. It becomes sore and starts to hurt after using and pushing it more than it’s accustomed to. Building up the strength in your knee is also something that is strenuous. One leg will be noticeably stronger, and trying to get the leg that has the replaced ACL as strong as the other leg is laborious. It is important to strengthen the leg back though if you want to return to sports. Not being able to participate in basketball, or any sport, causes a depressing mood. …show more content…
Not being able to do something for six or even more than six months, is arduous. Sitting on the bench, having to watch from the sidelines, gets to your head. Just after surgery, the doctor prescribes pain pills to help with the pain. If taken too often or for a long period of time, people can become addicted to the pain pills in view of the fact that they are so powerful. Becoming addicted to pain pills is a cause of depression. Another cause of depression is not being able to live your everyday life for a certain amount of time. Pain pills help with the pain right after surgery, and can help with the pain up to two weeks, but after the pain pills are all up, the pain doesn’t withdraw. The pain is still in the knee and does not go