Dean GraziosiCofounder @ Mastermind & AI Advantage | Serial Entrepreneur

How I Conquered My Acl Injury With Strict Discipline

9 Dec 2024 · 1 min

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Dean Graziosi recounts tearing his ACL (confirmed by MRI), seeking two surgical opinions, and choosing an intensive conservative recovery plan guided by a second opinion that estimated about a 20% chance he could avoid surgery. He describes the prescribed daily physical therapy, a 90-day assessment period (if his leg is straight and muscle function returns within 90 days, surgery may be unnecessary), and his own disciplined mindset and checklist approach to pursue recovery without immediate surgery.

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I twisted my knee so bad, I tore my acl in half. Ah. I go get an mri. It's torn. I go get one opinion that he's like, yeah, let's get you in two weeks, do the surgery for a new acl. He said, let's schedule you. I'm like, okay. I get a second opinion. And he said, here's the thing. You got about a 20% chance you don't need surgery, but you got to get that muscle strong, and you got to get everything around it strong. I'm like, so tell me what I got to do. He's like, you got to do physical therapy every day. And he said, if in 90 days, your leg is straight and you can make that muscle work, he goes, I think if I'm treating the person, I don't think you need the surgery. I don't know. Even of a decade ago, I would have been disciplined enough to say, I'm doing this. I made a list of all the outcomes that didn't. Wouldn't make this feel like a discipline, but more like, hey, I can defy the odds. We have to find that way of saying, is that all I got to do? Because the rewards are so great, and most people don't get the rewards to the other side.