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005 | Athlete Wins 1.0 · The ACL Athlete Podcast

• 0:19
  SPEAKER_00: Welcome everyone to the ACL Athlete Podcast.
• 0:23
  SPEAKER_00: This is the podcast where we talk about everything related to the ACL, whether that's the injury itself, the rehab process, return to sport, and more.
• 0:33
  SPEAKER_00: I'm your host, Dr.
• 0:34
  SPEAKER_00: Ravi Patel, performance physical therapist and coach.
• 0:38
  SPEAKER_00: Between myself and fellow guests and experts, you'll learn through the lens of the patient, the healthcare professional, and the coach.
• 0:46
  SPEAKER_00: The goal of this podcast is to equip you, the athlete, with the education to make the best informed decision about your care and your ACL journey.
• 0:57
  SPEAKER_00: Thanks for joining.
• 0:58
  SPEAKER_00: Now let's dive into today's episode.
• 1:04
  SPEAKER_00: What is up everyone, and welcome back to the ACL Athlete Podcast.
• 1:10
  SPEAKER_00: Today we've got some construction going on next door.
• 1:14
  SPEAKER_00: So the timing worked out really well.
• 1:16
  SPEAKER_00: There's three townhomes going up.
• 1:18
  SPEAKER_00: So you might hear some of that next to my studio, which is my kitchen, literally my kitchen table.
• 1:26
  SPEAKER_00: So here we are, and someone else is moving in next door, so you might hear an elevator go back and forth.
• 1:31
  SPEAKER_00: So sorry about that, fam.
• 1:34
  SPEAKER_00: But today we're talking about uh an athlete win, a client win.
• 1:40
  SPEAKER_00: It's really cool, and I just wanted to share that today.
• 1:44
  SPEAKER_00: And so this started with getting a text from one of my athletes' parents, and it was an update about how he's doing.
• 1:52
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, he had just recently played in some basketball games, and it was really cool to see that, you know, even in the midst of all of COVID and how that's impacted sports.
• 2:03
  SPEAKER_00: It was really cool to see an update of him playing in some games.
• 2:07
  SPEAKER_00: So he's fully returned to sport and good to go.
• 2:10
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, so he's been at practices and games, and he's a freshman in college right now.
• 2:15
  SPEAKER_00: So his story uh goes back to when he was a junior and he injured his ACL, so he was going in for a shot and he felt his knee twist.
• 2:28
  SPEAKER_00: And long story short, there was this long road of uh trying to get some consultations and figure out what was going on.
• 2:38
  SPEAKER_00: His knee had a little bit more of a tricky process with um recovery, and that's how we met.
• 2:45
  SPEAKER_00: We started doing rehab together, uh, whether he was gonna have surgery or not, and I referred him to a surgeon that you know I trust in the local community, and you know, he had his sight set on playing really, really soon.
• 2:59
  SPEAKER_00: You know, he was looking to get a scholarship and uh really take it to the next level for for uh college basketball.
• 3:06
  SPEAKER_00: And I get a call from the surgeon after he had seen him, and the surgeon was like, he needs to have surgery.
• 3:14
  SPEAKER_00: This was after an MRI was done, and he finally knew, okay, now it's torn, so this is the game plan and what needs to happen.
• 3:22
  SPEAKER_00: So I had to have the conversation with the parents and the athlete, and basically, you know, let them know that this is kind of the game plan of going forward because they had trusted me, so you know, we had that conversation, and you're looking at someone who loves basketball and had to give up his senior year of his favorite sport, not to mention you know, the recruits and the potential scholarships that he could have gotten from playing that year, but the goal was playing the long game of you know, if you want to play in college, then you know, the risk of getting your ACL repaired now versus waiting and doing it later, you know, it's not an easy decision, but for his situation, it was the thing that he needed to do.
• 4:11
  SPEAKER_00: And so he ended up having the surgery.
• 4:13
  SPEAKER_00: He he did not play his senior year of high school, which was really tough.
• 4:19
  SPEAKER_00: And so he worked really, really, really hard in his rehab um all the time, and he was always asking me, you know, what can I do?
• 4:28
  SPEAKER_00: What can I do?
• 4:29
  SPEAKER_00: Uh so there were a lot of times where we had to slow him down, but he was such a hard worker and put his head down.
• 4:35
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, he would always ask, you know, can I take X amount of jump shots?
• 4:40
  SPEAKER_00: So it was really fun to be able to progress him along that process of reintroducing plymetrics and jumping and being able to do some of the cool things that you can do in basketball.
• 4:51
  SPEAKER_00: So uh that was really fun.
• 4:53
  SPEAKER_00: And, you know, we kind of stuck together for the entire process all the way until he got back on the court, which leads me back to the text that I had gotten from his dad of his stats, where you know, he crushed it in the game and had some really good playing minutes, and there was a video that he attached, multiple videos, but there was one in particular where he literally goes back and forth for three different shots and drains all three shots from from the three-point line.
• 5:25
  SPEAKER_00: And the thing that stood out to me the most was his face in these videos after he had drained three shots back to back.
• 5:35
  SPEAKER_00: And it wasn't just the excitement of you know doing the three shots.
• 5:40
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, sure, definitely, but you can tell when he just walks away with that excitement and he's just got this like very strong stare.
• 5:49
  SPEAKER_00: He's going through that process of thinking, man, I have worked so freaking hard to get to this point.
• 5:55
  SPEAKER_00: And when he had initially torn his ACL and had been told that he was gonna be out for his senior year at basketball and forgo any potential scholarships that he was gonna get, man, it almost feels like the world is gonna kind of shut down, and you know, the one thing that you know about is not no longer there, and so seeing that video was just inspiration, you know, for me as someone as his coach, but then also for him as an athlete, being able to live out his passion and his dream and being on scholarship and being able to play at the next level, and so I just wanted to come on and share that because I think it's huge.
• 6:37
  SPEAKER_00: I think sharing these stories are important um because this process can be so long.
• 6:44
  SPEAKER_00: So if you're someone who is going through this process uh and it seems like a drag and it seems like uh, you know, there's no light at the end of the tunnel, I promise you there is.
• 6:54
  SPEAKER_00: Just keep working hard and keep following your guide of who is helping you through that process and just talking it out and making sure that you know any feelings that you're having that those are being heard, and just you know, keep working, keep going.
• 7:09
  SPEAKER_00: I promise you will be better for it.
• 7:13
  SPEAKER_00: So if you have a success story and you're listening, please send it my way.
• 7:19
  SPEAKER_00: I'd love to share it, I'd love to highlight it because I think the more stories that we tell about people who get to the other side of this, and there are so many that do, that it helps every single person who is going through this process because it can be so long.
• 7:37
  SPEAKER_00: So uh just know that you're not alone and that there are other people going through this, and let's just highlight stories, let's push this forward and empower each other through this process.
• 7:51
  SPEAKER_00: So that's it for today, guys.
• 7:53
  SPEAKER_00: I just wanted to share the story because I think it's important to celebrate the wins and uh be able to highlight some of this stuff.
• 8:01
  SPEAKER_00: So um, that's it for today.
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  SPEAKER_00: And thank you for listening to the ACL Athlete Podcast.