After falling into a river and twisting my knee really badly back in July, I most definitely ruptured my MCL (as shown by a chiropractor who bent my leg much further than it should bend sideways, due to a lack of medial or internal knee stability which would have been provided by a structurally intact MCL). My initial healing began quickly, but after about 2-3 weeks I hit a plateau and it seemed like nothing was improving for weeks. My morale dropped and I began to doubt my body's ability to heal whatever damage had occurred without the help of a professional - a PT, a doctor, a surgeon...I wasn't sure. I began to doubt myself and my ability to tune in and know what my body needs to heal. So I started looking up places to get an MRI, I looked up physical therapists to call and I also took to google to figure out what might be going on. I couldn't lift my leg more than a couple of inches off the ground while standing. I had no medial gastrocnemius when I flexed my foot (it was mush). There's an indentation where my Sartorius should be at my knee. My walking wasn't improving. I felt totally stuck and demoralized. But then something sparked inside of me and I decided (the root of "de-cide" means to "cut off from", as in to cut off any other possibilities than the one you choose) that I could heal this, no matter how much damage I had incurred. Within a few days I was walking normally, and one week later I hiked 6 miles on my 40th birthday. A few days after that I hiked 8 miles on Stefan's birthday, and on September 5th I hiked 13 miles ? Here's the crazy part: I still couldn't bend my leg backwards while standing; still couldn't squat; still couldn't sit cross legged and while hiking I do feel as if my leg might swing away from my control if I'm not careful. But I could hike! And hike pain-free. When I commit to my body and commit to listening to her, she tells me what the limits are. She tells me how to walk, how to adjust joints like my toes or ankle or knee so tendons that are in the way move back to where they're supposed to go; she tells me when to turn around and whether or not to climb a steep section of scree (NOT - that's when I turned around on September 5th). Western medicine tells us that MCL ruptures, medial gastrocnemius ruptures, planteris ruptures and other ligament, tendon or muscle ruptures can fully repair because they get enough BLOOD. As someone who has spent my life dedicated to understanding the human body, and my own in particular, and as someone who has spent a decade studying fascia, fascia release, blood circulation as a means to self-repair injuries and the role that fascia plays in performance, injury recovery and self-healing...I'm convinced that if I get my body enough blood, cellular hydration, nutrients ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbLFYdwdfPs