First Time I Tore My ACL Essay

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First Time I Tore My ACL When i Was at the mosque outside on the court while i was playing a 3 on 3 basketball game. And the teams was me, bosh and Salah vs Abu, Sunny and Musa. We started to play, and my team was down by 8 points. So i was kind of mad at my team that we was down by so much. So i told them let me take over and try to get us back in the game. So they let me take over and we went on a 7-0 run and out of nowhere we was only down by one point. Then we made a turn over, then they got the ball and they passed it to abdi. And abdi got through his defender and bosh stepped up and tried to block his shot but he head faked bosh and i step and try to block his shot and i jumped up tried to block his shot and my knee cap moved out of …show more content…

Week 1 was the hardest part because i really didn't know how to move my knee around, like bend my knee or keep it up for at least 6 sec. And i was thinking about quitting because i wasn't used to it and it was really hard. But then i was like i can't quit because i'm trying to get back on the court and field and play with my friends. She told me i need to do these exercises at home and try to get use to it. And she told me i will have therapy at least twice a day. Week 2 came and i was kind of getting the hang of it because i was really dedicated to do the exercise and get it done. So i have therapy mondays and wednesday. And when i went back that monday my therapist was surprised of how good i’ve gotten, because i was able to move my knee more and bend my knee more than 70%. She told me that it was good but my goal is 120% or more, for me to get to the next step of surgery. So i focused on that, and i was putting in twice as much as work i usually put in. Because the only thing that's on my mind is to get back on the field and work my way to become stronger and better.

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