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00:00This is the Injury Report, presented by NYU Langone Health.

00:05Giants wide receiver Malik Nabors.

00:07Leek is months removed from surgery on his torn ACL meniscus in his right knee

00:12that we saw him suffer in week four.

00:14So in today's Injury Report, we're talking with Dr. Daniel J. Kaplan,

00:18sports orthopedic surgeon at NYU Langone,

00:21because fans want to know if Leek is going to be full goal week one

00:25or if he's going to start the 2026 season on PUP list.

00:29So let's talk about that second and third stage of the rehab.

00:34What does that entail?

00:36Like how soon will he be out there running and even cutting?

00:42So three months is technically when you're allowed to start jogging.

00:46Now, I always tell my patients the same thing.

00:48Just because you're allowed to do something does not mean you're able to.

00:51There's a big difference between those two things.

00:53So at three months, technically that tissue is healed enough where it might be safe.

00:57But if he doesn't feel like he has the coordination or strength back,

00:59maybe he pushes that back a little bit from three to three and a half or four.

01:03Cutting, we usually say, is around six months, plus or minus.

01:06But again, it depends how fast he recovered from that last phase.

01:09Usually around between six and eight months is when you're cutting and doing sports specific drills

01:13and then full go between eight and ten months, depending upon his recovery at that stage.

01:19So I'm sure you treat patients with torn ACLs at NYU laying going all the time.

01:26So let's say your patient isn't an athlete at all.

01:29His name isn't Malik Neighbors or OBJ or Adrian Peterson.

01:34Is Adrian Patterson just your everyday person?

01:36What's their rehab and their recovery process like?

01:39Like how would that differ from Adrian Patterson and Adrian Peterson?

01:43Love that twist there.

01:45Nice. So Adrian Patterson, they're going to get the same overall timeline.

01:50So a lot of our timelines for ACL reconstruction, which we're still researching a little bit, is based on time.

01:56So there takes a certain amount of time for the new graft.

01:59So the new ACL, we give someone to what's called incorporate or ligamentize.

02:04So that means some of it is just based on time.

02:06That's why that eight to ten month mark exists, because research studies have shown it takes about that long

02:11for that to become sort of a normal ligament.

02:13But that's only one side of the coin.

02:15The other side is functional.

02:17So as much as we need to rely on timelines and biology, we also want to treat each patient individually

02:22and make sure we're doing the right thing at each time point.

02:25So usually at three months, like I said, you're allowed to start jogging.

02:28At six months, you're allowed to start pivoting.

02:30At nine, call it eight to nine months, you're allowed to start going back to sports.

02:34But everyone's different and everyone needs different things.

02:36So if you haven't gotten your quad strength back, which is a big holdup,

02:40or you don't have all your motion, then maybe you have to go a little bit slower.

02:43Or maybe if you're killing it on every front, you can go a little bit faster and push it

02:47to like early eight months going back.

02:50So yes, there are generalities and there are broad strokes for what we want our patients

02:55to be doing.

02:55But at the same time, me, like everyone else I know, at least at NYU, would really give

02:59it a patient-specific approach for everyone.

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