Your surgeon is more conservative about letting you get back to your workouts than mine was. From the time of my injury to getting back to training legs was about 8 months. As far as training, my surgeon told me that I could do whatever I wanted in the gym, but just make sure my feet were on a flat surface when I trained legs. I was forbidden to ever do leg extensions again. He told me that over time that these aggravated arthritis in the knee, and I don't remember the medical term he used for that.
I could not recommend a surgeon to do your minor repair, sorry. It sounds that during the healing process, the patella may have pulled a little out of position during your period of immobilization and healing. I would do research and find a good sports ortho surgeon to fix that… in your area if possible. Do you have at least 90 degrees of flexibility back, hopefully much more?
I was very disappointed about this, it ssems like in Italy they can cure well only soccer players!
if I have to do a financial sacrifice to put the things working with a surgery in US a I will, but only if sure 100% about the guy who will operate me. I wrote to Milos Sarcev to ask for a suggestion it but had no answer at all.
On 2 rehab centers out of 3 I was to i did leg extension, the first on the isokinetic machine and it was very painful on the first reps (because the articular conflict) the second one on a regular rehab leg extension but on isometric steps at 0/15/30", now i'm doing it at 3x6x10sec at 0"
my rom is amost complete, around 140, before the injuy i wasn't able to flex like that because the femoral bicep mass...
yes, my surgeno was overly conservative making my rehab more long and painful, but in his shoes i did the same, he wanted to be sure my tendons had enought time to heal and to respond to high loads once again.
strength is ok... on leg presses i am already capable of 15 reps with ò 440 pounds load, but i'm concerned about this patellas' issue, and i don't want to aggravate this situation, so i'm stoll not training legs in a regular way, only isometric, also on presses.