My MCL is healing and my knee feels stronger each month. The bone stuff is all healed by now.
No new ACL.
Hey, some anecdotal "evidence" for you . I took the same sort of advice back in '90 or
so. The issue for me was that I was "popping the knee out" fairly frequently. Each
time it was sliding across surfaces it wasn't supposed to, it wore a little bit of meniscus
off, then finally bone off. I finally, 7-8 years later, got it repaired with a patellar
graft. So now it's arthritic and I'll need a knee implant thing when I can't stand the pain
anymore.
The other knee, the week after I blew out the ACL the doc fixed it. It is solid 10 years
later. Just for completeness, both ACLs where homographs, the first patellar tendon, the
second hamstring.
So if you're able to keep the muscles around your knee strong enough to keep the
thing from "popping out" occasionally, I think you are doing the right thing. If not,
the second repair I had I was walking and riding a bicycle in a week, riding in 2 months.
Wish I'd done it on the first (but they didn't do hamstring homographs then)
Just a data point.