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280 | Further Out and Still Not There: Why Your ACL Recovery Is Taking Longer Than You Expected
In this episode, we dig into one of the most common and quietly painful experiences in ACL recovery: being months or even years out from surgery and still not feeling close to where you thought you would be. We break down why the 9-to-12-month timeline, as useful as it is as a starting point, was never a guarantee, and why using it as a personal benchmark is setting so many athletes up to feel like they failed a recovery they were never given the right tools to complete. We walk through the real variables that extend timelines beyond what anyone warned you about, including injury complexity…
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