Recovery is indeed long: my surgeon, who specializes in this stuff and treats professional soccer players as well, talkes about a year until a potential return

Recovery is indeed long: my surgeon, who specializes in this stuff and treats professional soccer players as well, talkes about a year until a potential return to normal training and 6 months until being able to run in non-straight lines... Well, for now it seems I can get away without suregery (we'll see what skiing this winter has to say), but it is nothing an athlete would do, loosing a year of training will not be worth it, on fact it can and does mean the end of a career.