Quote from: Bob on August 13, 2018, 10:34:08 AMPope, how many days after the surgery could you weight bear and how much.
Thanks and good luck.
You can weight bear immediately right after the first surgery. Dr. Kulesh believes the frames can bear roughly 80kg.
Great updates pope! Youre a real trooper for doing 6 cm with those frames.
I just dont get why the nails are not full weight bearing? I looked at you xray and it looks like you dont have proximal locking screws on top of you nail. Im not sure but it looks like it. Can you use walker?
Quote from: doomsday on August 14, 2018, 04:27:18 PMGreat updates pope! Youre a real trooper for doing 6 cm with those frames.
I just dont get why the nails are not full weight bearing? I looked at you xray and it looks like you dont have proximal locking screws on top of you nail. Im not sure but it looks like it. Can you use walker?
Thanks 
Here are additional x-rays to show the proximal screws. Dr. Kulesh doesnt recommend I walk around with a walker yet according to my last x-rays on July 27. I will probably be able to by next x-rays.
Hey man,
How is walking? 
How much does it cost to use a Solomin doctor to do a traditional llizarov extension of the 6.5cm tibia in Russia? the full cost
Update
- My left foot still has drop foot
- I started walking on crutches around September
- Can confidently walk without crutches early October
- I haven’t tested how long I can go without crutches but I can definitely say that I can walk at least 30 minutes straight (slowly).
- I’ve been able to easily go up and down stairs for a month now
- Gait needs improvement (I will post a video soon)
- Range of motion for right knee flexion is about 110-120 degrees
- Range of motion for left knee flexion is about 90 degrees
- I stopped stretching for now to let my nerves heal (especially my left because of foot drop)
- I still bring my crutches around with me cause Dr Kulesh recommended I shouldn’t even be walking yet. I would probably be fine without them but I’m just cautious.
-My next X-Rays are next week and I’ll share those
Pictures of Surgical Scars
Man, I am almost in the same position as you in August. I'm getting my first x-rays tomorrow and I'm extremely worried now. I'm doing Tibias in Baku, Azerbaijan but the doctors are Russian and everything you've mentioned is exactly the same.
Is there any way that the complications could have been prevented? Possibly doing more walking/stretching/Physiotherapy? It looks like the bones were not aligned correctly, were the turns done unevenly? So curious, would love to hear your opinion.
Do they align tibias the same way? It sounds terrifying.
Quote from: jcayabo on November 05, 2018, 09:15:11 PMMan, I am almost in the same position as you in August. I'm getting my first x-rays tomorrow and I'm extremely worried now. I'm doing Tibias in Baku, Azerbaijan but the doctors are Russian and everything you've mentioned is exactly the same.
Is there any way that the complications could have been prevented? Possibly doing more walking/stretching/Physiotherapy? It looks like the bones were not aligned correctly, were the turns done unevenly? So curious, would love to hear your opinion.
Do they align tibias the same way? It sounds terrifying.
From what I’ve learned the past 4 months after nailing, the drop foot complication was from over stretching my peroneal nerve. Dr. Solomin insisted that I had 60 degrees of knee flexion before nailing. I was able to get my right leg to about 60 degrees which is probably why that one doesn’t have foot drop. And my left leg was only at about 30 degrees at the time. So yes, I would say that I could have prevented this if I stretched more seriously.
My femurs were pretty misaligned but they were corrected. My right leg (which is doing much better than my left) actually needed more correcting done. The doctors thought my right leg would have more nerve problems because of that. But this wasn’t the case cause as I’ve said I think the problem was from over stretching my nerve on my left leg to insert the nail in my femur.
I don’t know if this would be the same case for someone doing tibias, but my point is, stretching is super important!
They do align tibias the same way. I actually used the hexapod struts shortygirl used to align her tibias right after she finished using them.
You overstretched your peroneal nerve? Is this from lengthening too fast?
Can you recommend stretches that would be beneficial? I'm really taking the stretches seriously now, mostly doing leg raises (sitting and lying down) and lying on my stomach and bringing my leg back, no idea what this is called.
Also walking and doing stairs...
Hi Pope!
Great recovery! How is the pain? Are you using any medication or is post nailing pretty painless?
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