Sports Recovery Research Paper

My Sports Recovery Sports has always been a passion of mine. It has developed friendships and has kept me in great shape. However, I have had unexpected events in my life that have restricted athletics for me. In this essay, I will describe these obstacles and the roadblocks they have created in my road to success. I started having trouble with my knee dislocating during my 5th grade year and it escalated very quickly. I knew every time I went on the basketball court, I was going to dislocate my knee.
My knee surgeries have affected basketball and football tremendously. At a basketball tournament in January during my fifth grade year, I went up to the basket for a layup and my knee gave out. I knew instantly it was really bad. I was later
told I fractured my kneecap. I needed surgery to reattach the fracture and tendon. This was a three month recovery. Little did I know, it was not the end of my recovery.
The knee surgery resulted in a 6 month recovery. After my first surgery, I was not able to play football because I was still recovering. In 7th grade, I finished off the school basketball season with no problem. I was so excited to be back playing, I decided to play spring ball with a traveling team. We had tournaments all around the state every weekend. It wasn’t long into our season, I started to feel the instability in my knee. Not long thereafter, my knee began dislocating at each game. Each time it dislocated, it would swell and I would not be able to finish the game. My doctor told me I would continue to have problems with it dislocating until it broke again. Once again, I was faced with surgery. I had a knee reconstruction done, in which a cadaver ligament was used to replace my damaged ligament. I had a full six month recovery. At this point I was fed up and felt like the odds were never in my favor. My surgeon went on to tell me a heart shattering thing that could affect the rest of my career, I would most likely never play football again. I never realized how much it really bothered me until I had to watch from the sidelines and see all my friends play. Playing football has always been a passion and never in a million years would I have thought I can’t play again.
My brain really has never fully taken in the fact I can’t and shouldn’t play football again.
Even though the doctor told me I can’t play again I still think that if I work hard maybe this coming season I might make a push to play football. Rehab was a long and gruesome period over 6 months. Although I had an amazing physical therapist named Alex I still never want to go through it again. After my second surgery I took part in a series of tests that tested how strong my knee was and would determine if my surgeon would give the approval for me to play sports again. I was one of the first kids to take part in the test and actually failed my first time going through it. I passed the second time and just in time for basketball season.
There are many downsides to my knee problems but there have also been some upsides surprisingly, like I have felt pain in a way that most people have not experienced. The injury has came to make me realize that maybe god didn’t want me to play football and just wanted me to focus on basketball. I know I must keep my knee really strong to avoid the same problems. This has kept me in the weightroom and helped me get to where I am today.
Unfortunately, football cannot be a sport for me. I believe everything happens for a reason and I shouldn’t play football. I will continue to work hard and try my best to succeed even if something is thrown my way. Sports is and will always be a passion of mine throughout my
life.