Hi everyone. Has anyone ever played a season with a torn ACL?..because I am going to do that next season however with a custom-made brace and get surgery at the end of the season. i play shortstop and i want to hear other people's personal experiences. my surgeon said that baseball is a sport with a low risk knee injury rate so i should be fine for one season before the surgery, but if anyone has played baseball with a torn ACL, please tell because I need to form a good opinion. thanks.

Didnt you go down this road a few weeks back?

yea well i jus wanna hear other people's stories because i read online about people who went back to playing baseball before ACL surgery and some other stories with different opinions and am still undecided.

How many medical opinions have you gotten?

I can tell you the longer that you put the surgery off, the later it will be in the recruiting scene and can hurt your chances

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Get the surgery!

Would you rather be out for a short period of time now, or be paying for it when you are older?

The longer you put it off the greater chance there is for it to come back and bite you when you are older, or it could even ruin your chances of getting to play College because you've taken to long to go and get the surgery!

Think about it this way what happens if you slide, trip, fall land, awkwardly on your knee and do EVEN MORE damage then what is currently wrong within your knee.

Take it from a guy who played injured for far too many seasons: IT IS NOT WORTH IT! Especially if you have the dream of playing College Ball, or even one day playing Pro Ball

i am gunna get the surgery, but it's just not possible to get it this year because of financial issues. and because of that, im going to get the surgery next year.

Ok, then what's the real question here then?

since i am getting surgery next summer, do u think i can still play baseball for one season before i actually do get my knee fixed?

Well first off go with the advice your surgeon or doctor or physiotherapist has told you.

Secondly, if you think it's worth the risk, the decision should solely be left up to you.

Now remember this is strictly what he told me, don't take what I was told and apply it to your case, because everyone is different.

I was in a similar circumstance prior to my surgery. My surgeon told me... and he was rather candid about it, 'well I'm cutting you open anyways in a few months so you can go and play because whatever additional damage you do happen do this season I'll fix since I'm already in there."

I felt it was better to sit out the season just in case I happened to do even more damage then what had already been done in my shoulder.

Again, go from what your Doctors have told you, not from what you happen to read online, or hear from people simply because each and everyone is different!

yea. i understand what u are saying. i'll probably play my season next season as a junior, get the surgery the following summer, then just continue on with baseball after that. the first time i tore my ACL in my left knee, the doctors didnt even know i had a torn ACL and so i played my little league season with a torn ACL with a brace and nothing happened, then i got the surgery when they found out what it was.

again I ask---how many valid medical opinions have you gotten?

I'm no docotor but I was under the impression that a torn ACL pretty much prohibits you from any kind of sport. How do you round bases or make a play in the hole when you have to plant and make a throw. I would really get a lot of medical opinions on this though.

I have never personally done this but a team I would play consistantly in travel ball had their first baseman play through a torn ACL. He also had a custom made brace and he told me the doctor recommended molded cleats over metal ones because you won't grip as much and possibly cause your knee to do something it doesn't want to do!

well i just found out that im getting surgery probably around january so that would put me out for the 2008 season. im going to play as a senior, but then i dont know what else after that...

Torn ACL is pretty serious stuff, I had no idea you play with that. I totally understand you playing (if possible) but I would suggest taking everything easy and never pushing it, because it could get very very bad.

despite my ACL tear, im still determined to go far in baseball. it's not over yet.