Should You Roller Skate With A Torn ACL? Let’s Unravel The Mystery!

Causes

Below are the most common causes:

• Suddenly stop, slow down or navigate when acting with high intensity.
• Jump down carelessly without preparation
• Knees receive direct hits or impacts

Furthermore, causes are divided into two groups: direct and indirect causes. As usual, the latter is more common, and most patients have to find a way to cope with it.

Direct causes: When the collision occurs directly in the knee which usually happens to athletes or someone who plays soccer, volleyball, basketball, etc, or because of traffic accidents.

Indirect causes: more common type, encountered in the case of a sudden stop or sudden change of direction.

Read More: “Is Roller Blading Bad On The Knees?”

Symptoms

• A loud “crack” or “popping” sensation in the knee
• The patient is in severe pain and cannot continue to function with Swelled quickly knees Loss of range of movement of the joint
• Loose knee with symptoms such as the patient feeling weak legs when moving, having difficulty
• In case of late detection, the patient’s lateral thigh may have become smaller than the benign side due to muscle atrophy.

Because of these diverse causes, we need to pay more attention when playing sports or doing exercise. Anyway, prevention is better than cure!

Be Conscious

Can you roller skate when your mind is not alert because you are drunk, have a mental illness or use stimulants? Absolutely, NO!

So why? We bet that you have found the answer!

As clear as daylight, if you want to do anything you first need to be in the right mind, and so does roller skate. When your nerve is not stable, you will lose the ability to control yourself and your behaviors. It’s extremely dangerous!

If you’re still confused about it, let’s imagine. Now you are roller skating on the road, you don’t know how you are, where you are going, you even can’t stop your movements or control your behaviour, how bad will it be?

It is not only dangerous to yourself but also can cause awful unforeseen effects to others. Who knows? The unexpected always happens!

Healthy Body

Healthy body? Yes, it’s obvious! A healthy body is a prerequisite!

But wait, how much “healthy” is enough?

100%! You need to have a stable and strong body, which means your body is completely healthy without injuries to joints, muscles, etc. or serious wounds.

Why? Because it’s roller skate, not video games! When roller skating, you will act and move a lot. Thus, they need to be physically fit to control skates, directions as well as adjust postures and movements.

Moreover, legs are the body part doing most of the hard work when playing this sport. Your legs, especially knees, need to be firm and flexible enough to maintain balance, limiting falls and injury while playing.

For being eligible to play sports, you have to meet all physical and mental requirements. If you lack one of those two, we regret to say that you can’t. That’s a pity!

Incapable Of Controlling And Correctly Navigating

As I mentioned above, one of the prerequisites of roller skating is a healthy body without any injuries to joints, muscles, etc. or serious wounds. Nevertheless, tearing anterior cruciate ligament injury is a significantly severe injury.

Tearing anterior cruciate ligament will cause quick swelling in the knee joint and painful severe symptoms. And once you are injured, walking is even tricky, much less playing roller skate!

When the frontal ligament is broken, you will experience knee loosening. This is the general situation for many people who will feel unsteady and weak walking. How can you skate with your loose knee joint?

Besides, it’s especially difficult when trying to stand with an injured leg or exercise and you’re unable to control the movement of the foot as you want. You have lost control ability and roller skate seems to be an impossible thing.

For the above reasons, it’s evident that you can’t not control or navigate directly when you roller skate with a torn ACL. Please don’t try it even once!

No matter how many people want to risk life and limb, you shouldn’t under any circumstance!

Possibility Of Lifelong Disability

If you are kind of a “Nobody has ever shed tears without seeing a coffin” person, it’s OK! We bet you will no longer insist on playing roller skating after reading the next part.

Are you aware of the lifelong sequelae caused by tearing the ALC?

If you don’t exercise adequately for a long time, you will get muscle atrophy symptoms. Muscle atrophy refers to the state where the injured thigh will be smaller than the good side. Because the person is sedentary due to the pain of a loose knee joint, this symptom often appears late.

Next, tearing the ACL can lead to permanent knee pathology, which can lead to lots of terrible sceneria further down the road.

These are the symptoms that can occur when you have a torn ligament without acting with high intensity. What if you roller skate?

You will easily encounter accidents and more sequelae when roller skating. Strong bumps can make injuries more serious. And in case of unforeseen circumstances, you, unfortunately, have torn ligaments on both legs, you will most likely have to use a wheelchair for a long time!

Proper Nutrition

One of the quickest ways to recover is paying more attention to nutrition in your food. Eating properly after operating can contribute to your quick recovery.

The recommended foods are those that contain many typical vitamins like vegetables and fruits. In addition, you should choose vegetables that are easy to digest.

For those who have ligament operation should add animal proteins such as meat, fish, eggs,tofu, beans, etc. Protein supports the formation of new cell tissues, regulating fluid balance in the body, neutralizing acid-alkaline levels, supporting the metabolism of nutrients between cells and blood vessels.

Moreover, Patients should limit stimulants, such as alcohol, beer, cigarettes.

Limit Vigorous Exercises

As mentioned above, vigorous exercise can make injuries worse, so patients should avoid playing sports, running, etc.

Follow doctor’s post-operative instructions. After ACL surgery, you will receive instructions from doctors, make sure that you follow it step by step not to make any bad effect on your body.

You should find a doctor and practice appropriate physiotherapy exercises, which will help the wound recover faster and minimize the sequelaes. Besides, you should practice hard at home. Practice slowly step by step.

Last but not least, take the medicine at the right dose, time according to your doctor’s instructions. Pay attention to the use of more vitamins and functional foods. Ask the doctor when you want to use another new type.