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Message: [QUOTE="UcMiami, post: 2106632, member: 199"] ACL tears are really strange in terms of how they differ from person to person - I tore mine playing beach volleyball - didn't hurt but I felt something pop and I played for a few minutes longer but realized my knee was not functioning properly - I could walk normally and did for the next three days until I could get back from Jamaica. There was a little swelling the next day but nothing too bad. Because I was working in Jamaica without rehab facilities and wasn't a sports fanatic, the Miami Heat doctor suggest I not have surgery and just live with it, which I am still doing 20 years later. Maybe a week a year my knee gets a little funky and loose, but otherwise I don't notice it. A lot depends on what tissues beyond the actual ligament are damaged, and whether the damage to the ligament involves the connection point of the ligament, because there aren't nerves in the ligament. So you have instances where there is great pain and others where there is almost none, and situations where any movement of the joint is painful and others where it feels pretty normal and can like in Moore's case function almost as if nothing is wrong. In watching the replay, the action in the ND game looked worse than the SC game, but who knows. [/QUOTE]