Quote from: VegasLights on November 16, 2013, 04:00:48 PMDo you play any contact sports now? E.g. football (soccer).
Curious to know how this may have impacted your abilities.
Regarding your knee problems, is this a common thing with internals? I've always read that internals is a "better" method and less risky than external, but the knee problem is pretty worrisome. I can only imagine it'd get worse with old age, unfortunately.
Did you have physiotherapy lessons when you returned home? Do you occasionally still have them at all?
I've never played contact sports. I'm a little slower, a little less agile, and have less endurance in my legs. That would certainly negatively affect performance, but I'm not sure by how much. My muscles just never grew big/strong enough to match the new bone length, although my flexibility is excellent. The bone is as strong as natural bone now, so my risk of breaking my legs isn't any higher than it would have been without LL.
When I look at pictures of knee anatomy, it appears that the issue is with my patellar tendon. That's where the stiffness and sensitivity are. I know that they split that tendon vertically and stretch it apart to create an opening to insert/remove IM nails. This is the standard way of doing it everywhere, not just a Beijing technique. I don't know how common it is, but it's worth mentioning that I've had an issue with inflammation in my wrists/hands before when I was working with computers all day, so I might be more prone to this type of problem than others.
I did go to an American physiotherapist when I got home. I think I made about six visits. It didn't need to be an ongoing thing. She showed me exercises and stretches, all of which could be done on my own once I'd learned to do them properly.
