Cruciate Ligaments

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Did Corbally utd pick up the bill?

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I was never the same player again.

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I hope it didnā€™t make you asexual

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you were the victim of evolution. The knee has evolved into a very imperfect hinge joint.

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Only pulling your leg, mate.

Only soft lads and really good players suffer ACLsā€¦i was neither.

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There was no such thing as a cruciate 30 years ago.

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Players swallowing their tongue was all the rage 30 years ago

Badly gone out of fashion now though

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There was for me in August 1993! I followed Gazza and Shearer you could call me a GAA trailblazer.

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Not 30 years ago yet mate, although we are getting there

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Gazza was a great trailbazer for cruciate awareness

David Beckham later did for metatarsal awareness what Gazza had done for the cruciate

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there was a metatarsal pandemic there about 10 years agoā€¦ lads were missing matches with broken metatarsals and showing up the following Tuesday, grand for training.

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Pat Spillane was the first person in Ireland to do his cruciate

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did you get a knee replacement?

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Patā€™s inspiration on his comeback trail was former Ipswich Town player and later manager George Burley

In his media career his inspiration was Kay Burley

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I got two knee replacements

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jaysus. You win this thread anyway.

Has it worked out for you? I worked with a fella that got oneā€¦ could hardly walk before it and could play golf a few months after getting it

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It was shit after I got the first one done, because I still needed to get the second one done and there was also the prospect of having to get the ankles replaced. However once I recovered from the second one I went to see a different ankle specialist who didnā€™t recommend surgery but put me on a course of physio and steroids injections. Itā€™s not perfect but it has been life changing. I walk everywhere now when before I would only walk if it was strictly necessary.

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all from sports injuries?

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Only partly. Did an awful lot of stupid training when young but the main issue was the haemochromotosis, which destroyed the joint. And I had flat fleet which didnā€™t help.

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Harty in Cork told me Iā€™d be looking at a replacement eventually on the right knee. Iā€™ve had four serious injuries to it. Iā€™ve flat feet too funny enough.