My physiotherapist handed me a chart today that detailed the life of an ACL graft, and provided some very interesting nuggets of information:

• The graft strength early in day one is still 100%. That's before the graft goes, "oh shit, I've been taken out of the hamstring and put in the knee."
• The graft is apparently most vulnerable to injury between weeks 6 and 12.
• By week 20, the graft has been completely revascularized. It's fully come back to life!
• By week 24 the ACL has reached the "collagen mature" stage, which means all the tissue and other good stuff has re-formed. This is about where I am now.
• The ACL is 50% functional by week 31 or so, which is a hell of a lot better than where I was snowboarding with a torn ACL last year.

I also received my Donjoy knee brace today, which coincided with my last physiotherapy session. During the session, I told my physiotherapist I was running on a treadmill despite not getting clearance from anyone but it didn't seem to be a big deal. In fact, he told me to run as much as I want at this point; so, I'm going to start working on my stamina and hopefully I can hit 5k and then 10k in the next few weeks. I also really need to start hitting my quads hard. My left quad is still not ready for snowboarding yet.

My last physiotherapy session! It was so sad; I kind of felt like me and my physiotherapist were breaking up.