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Can i recover a arthroscopic knee surgery in 30 days or less?

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Dr. Peter Kurzweil answered

Specializes in Internal Medicine

Yes, motivate!: You'll certainly need to build up the muscles that attach to the knee (quads, hamstrings, calf muscles etc), and do a lot of specified therapy by a well trained sports physical therapist. But when, or if, you should go back to playing football will be related to what type of football, what level of play, what procedure u had, how well u recovered: in other words, what the 'orthopod' says.

Answered 7/10/2012

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Yes: This depends on what the surgery was done for. The most common knee scope surgery is done for a meniscal tear where a partial menisectomy is done and these generally recover in 4-6 weeks.

Answered 3/20/2014

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