Just thought I'd post my udate after a visit to the orthopedic surgeon. I can ditch the crutches (YEAH). I am only to do low impact exercises for now, biking, swimming (be careful of the kicking). No deep knee bend type of things, no weight training with the leges (OK with me!!!), no stair stepper, be careful of elipticals. I have been given a sheet of leg exercises to do to build up my quad muscles. One of these needs to be done 1000 times a day (not a typo). Five seconds each time with a rest then repeat. That's over 2 hours just on that exercise.

I go back on May 2. The doctor did say he wasn't going to tell me not to run again but he sure made it sound like it wasn't a good idea. Apparently the location of my tear on the meniscus is not repairable. I really wanted to run a half marathon in October. bummer!

I wonder if jumping on a trampoline is low impact??