A few years ago I injured my ACL. I took my rehab at a sensible rate, doing my physio and eventually building up. But it was a few years later I re-injured it. I had forgotten the advice and played football. It was just a two touch warm up and I meant to go in goal once the game started, I was relatively fit, but rather overweight which didn't help. I returned to exercise slowly, and started a diet, swam, did T'ai Chi, walking and going to the gym and started running again. Aerobics I returned to with caution. I am now only about one stone overweight, and had got to the point of running 6 miles in 50 minutes. I had hoped to do another half marathon. I then started doing a dance class, it's energetic, with some jumping and weight shifting. I re-injured my knee during one of the classes, I think I was possibly wearing the wrong footwear.
What I would like to know is, with the right recovery and rehab period, and the right footwear, could I return to this dancing or should I try a less risky style of dancing? Also, should I limit my running miles? I know I should avoid most team sports and skiing, but is there anything else I should avoid?
Please don't go into detail about what happens during surgery or during the injury because I know about that and when I read about it I feel faint!