While walking around the Jacksonville Jaguars facility on a game day last fall prior to kickoff, I came across Dr. Kevin Kaplan walking down the hallway as well. We started talking and he noticed I was in an obvious limp. He was concerned and asked me what happened. Prior to talking to him I was told I had a MCL sprain, but simply based on my story of how I injured myself Dr. Kaplan instantly felt that I had a meniscus tear. We set up an MRI a couple weeks later and that is exactly what it was.
On December 8th, 2011 Dr. Kaplan performed a partial meniscectomy on the medial meniscus of my left knee. Once going in, he noticed it was more significant than what the MRI showed. Nonetheless he performed the operation and smoothed everything out. Amazingly I was able to put pressure and walk the day of surgery and two days after I was completely off crutches. I never once felt any bit of pain or lack of comfort. This was surprising to me because I had never had surgery prior to this. After going through rehabilitation to strengthen my leg muscles that shut down due to the injury, I have been back to participating in the activities I enjoy doing. I play basketball a couple times a week, softball on the weekends, workout every day, and most recently got back into running. On March 10, just over 3 months after surgery, I completed the Gate River Run (15k) without any pain.
Looking at my knee you can’t even tell a surgery was performed, but I can’t thank Dr. Kaplan enough for the care he provided and the constant contact I was able to have both before and after surgery. Even to this day he has asked how I’ve been doing and that means a lot. Dr. Kaplan represents all that is good in the medical field and I’m certainly glad I was in the hands of one of the best.
Meniscus Repair
While walking around the Jacksonville Jaguars facility on a game day last fall prior to kickoff, I came across Dr. Kevin Kaplan walking down the hallway as well. We started talking and he noticed I was in an obvious limp. He was concerned and asked me what happened. Prior to talking to him I was told I had a MCL sprain, but simply based on my story of how I injured myself Dr. Kaplan instantly felt that I had a meniscus tear. We set up an MRI a couple weeks later and that is exactly what it was.On December 8th, 2011 Dr. Kaplan performed a partial meniscectomy on the medial meniscus of my left knee. Once going in, he noticed it was more significant than what the MRI showed. Nonetheless he performed the operation and smoothed everything out. Amazingly I was able to put pressure and walk the day of surgery and two days after I was completely off crutches. I never once felt any bit of pain or lack of comfort. This was surprising to me because I had never had surgery prior to this. After going through rehabilitation to strengthen my leg muscles that shut down due to the injury, I have been back to participating in the activities I enjoy doing. I play basketball a couple times a week, softball on the weekends, workout every day, and most recently got back into running. On March 10, just over 3 months after surgery, I completed the Gate River Run (15k) without any pain.
Looking at my knee you can’t even tell a surgery was performed, but I can’t thank Dr. Kaplan enough for the care he provided and the constant contact I was able to have both before and after surgery. Even to this day he has asked how I’ve been doing and that means a lot. Dr. Kaplan represents all that is good in the medical field and I’m certainly glad I was in the hands of one of the best.