Skiing or Boarding easier with Dodgy knee?

[phatmanace]

I had my ACL reconstructed 3 years ago, and have had 2.5 years of Rehab.

My knee is 'ok', but still not back to normal, but kids are keen to go (lots of watching the olympics). Me and Mrs ace have been talking about whether we could make it work...

I'd wondered about boarding rather than skiing, rationale is that with your feet locked into the bindings, you eliminate most of the twisting movement, which my knee seems most sensitive to.

I have a DonJoy brace, which helps with your knee not overstretching, and helps with preventing twisting a little bit...

Wondered if anyone had any thoughts?

--ace

[phatmanace]

The_Doc said:

boarding thought to be much safer. No real pivot.

not much evidence either way though

why hasn;t your ACL performed as i should? what does your surgeon say?

I'm not sure - I never went back to the surgeon (perhaps my error) - after the post-op checkout, I threw myself into the physio and gym

I can cycle, which is what I really want to be able to do, but my lateral stabilty isn't great. After 6 moths of physio and 2 more years of rehab classes I got it to 'so-so' - but there is no way I'd trust it to direction changing sport or anything like that

Better than before I had the operation, but all slightly dissapointing.