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Just got home from La Plagne on Saturday with my wife on crutches.
We were staying at 1800 so last Sunday we got the Melezes lift up to center and went back down to 1800 as a warm up and that was the end of the skiing for my wife. The les mines run down to 1800 is not nice and my wife hit some ice and when she fell her ski didn't come off. Whats the best way my wife can get her knee right? she's not had a MRI yet. She had 3 lots of physio in france with Ski physio.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Sorry to hear about your wifes ACL injury. Obviously she need to get an expert medical opinion and there is not much detail in your post but physio and gentle excercise are most likely to be the best way forward. Depending on the outcome of the medical examination I would reccomend either buying or renting a good quality rowing machine like the concept 2 to let her work on strengthening her muscles to support the joint and allow the ligaments to heal (assuming they are not torn). Unfortunately it is not likely to be a rapid process and the best bet is likely to be time spent working on improving surrounding muscle tone.
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Roughneck, sorry to hear about Mrs Roughneck. The first thing to do (assuming that you don't have private insurance) is to get your GP to refer your wife to the local Fracture Clinic.
I'm afraid that the NHS is often quite slow to get on with dealing with the problem, but assuming that she has indeed got an ACL rupture, I'm afraid it won't repair on its own. As the swelling goes down, she needs to work on both quads and hamstrings to protect the knee, but assuming that she intends to remain fit and active and that she is not too old, repair seems to be the best option for most people (the occasional person with good musculature can manage without).
The Fracture Clinic can do the referral for an MRI but sometimes need a bit of gentle pushing ("We'll see how you manage by just strengthening your muscles first") and then it's a case sometimes of persuading the orthopod that she really does want it repairing 
Wish her all the best from me.
There are lots of threads on the forum about ACL repair (use the search function - "Forum Search" just above the word "cruciates" in the thread title).
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I do have private insurance with work,I have to get a state registered physio so they pay out.
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Roughneck, if you have private insurance, you also want to get your GP to refer Mrs Roughneck to your local knee specialist (sorry, I don't know any in Newcastle) because he/she will be able to get on and organize the MRI, possible arthroscopy and eventual ACL repair (if it is necessary).
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Roughneck, what I recommend is as follows: ask your GP who is the best knee orthopod around (you could also try asking the local physios this, they should know this well), then find out his secretary's number either from GP or from your local BUPA / Spire whatever it is called now. give her a call and get her to find out which physio he recommends working with for knee rehab - then go right away to see this physio, and start the re-hab training, essential to recover quickly even if surgery is necessary after more investigation.
Anyway, with private ins, your wife should be having an MRI within days, then it should be a bit clearer. (But do note that, in both my case and my wifes, our MRIs gave one diagnosis which was superceded by a different / much more detailed one after surgery.)
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| Anyway, with private ins, your wife should be having an MRI within days, then it should be a bit clearer. (But do note that, in both my case and my wifes, our MRIs gave one diagnosis which was superceded by a different / much more detailed one after surgery.) |
quite so, MRI scans give lots of false positives (worse the older one becomes) and thats the problem, so like I said get an experienced clinician who can go off a good history and examination and let them decide if an MR scan is indicated. Roughneck is right start your rehab now, but finding the right physio is a bit like finding the right dentist - the one's with the highest prices and swankiest premises aren't always the best.
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Roughneck, whats the latest? 
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Just went to see an orthopaedic guy that our home Dr sent us to. So now she sould be getting a MRI scan this week. He thinks it's just the MCL thats got a sprain.
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Roughneck, 2 weeks since you got back, I hope mrs R has had physio.
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She had 3 lots in La Plagne then she's had 4 more at home. She's been doing all the exercises the physio told her to do. We also got a tens machine. MRI is a week to day.
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