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[quote=Anonymous]Re: rehab via leg exercises ("lightweight squats for years"), a bit more detail:

You have an exercise that causes pain.  (Again this is ONLY if it's confirmed to be articular cartilage localized damage or cracking.)  
Month 0: Do the bent-leg deadlifts, but without weight.  Does it still hurt?  If so, do them next to a table, grab onto the table, and reduce your body weight. But go through the full ROM of the exercise with as little weight as you need until there is very little pain.
Month 1: same thing.  Do this daily.  Probably still needing to unload with a table
Month 2: same thing.  You'll be starting to slightly go up in weight.
Month 3-6: repeat daily. do 3 sets of 20 reps. you'll be doing probably just body weight squats.  Use the leg extension machine from time to time too.  Low enough weight that there is no pain.
Month 7-: you'll be able to add some weight. Over next 6-12 months, work up in weight until you're doing real squats and real deadlifts.

-not-an-ortho[/quote]

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