Shooting quad pain
Hey guys, I’m about 1.5 weeks post injury. I have a fully torn acl with a sprain to my mcl. I was feeling really good the last couple of days and was walking around with no crutches and just my brace. Well I think I got too ahead of myself and when I tried going down the stairs, I put my bad leg down first on the step and bending my bad knee to lower my other foot down to the next step. OWWWW. I immediately fell onto the steps and had the craziest shooting pain in my quad. This happened this morning and I’m still so sore. I had no idea my muscles would weaken this fast. Or maybe my quad is still shut down from the injury? Not sure but oh my did it hurt. Almost felt like I pulled it right there on the stairs.
Lesson learned, I will only be using my good foot to lower down to the next step and I am not back in crutches. RIP to me. Currently in bed icing my quad, my knee doesn’t even hurt smh.
Has anyone else experienced shooting pain like I’m describing? It’s right in the rear drop part of my quad. I have PT next week for prehab and I’m worried my muscles will be too weak to work with if this is how weak they are after 1.5 weeks.