CLICKS
Clicking is getting easier, but for the ones who have not yet done the surgery, please listen
The first day of clicking sucks. Watch my videos below.
That twisting of the leg seems easy and if you try it at home you'll find that you can reach those angles without problems.
However, now you will do it with broken legs. That makes it painful. What type of pain? Well, if you try to move fast is like a stabbing pain that grows very fast and last one or two seconds.
How I managed to do it? SLOWLY.
The first day it took me 1 hour plus to finish the clicks. 25 minutes just to do the first on each leg.
As I started twisting my legs the pain grew very high and very fast to the point of me having to stop. But that pain resembled to me the same pain you feel when you're stretching deeply muscles like the quad or hamstring. So I figured, maybe if I hold my legs in a position of mild to intense air for a few seconds, then the pain may subside and the leg might get used to it. YES, that wad the trick. So at the beginning (even today) I start tisting the leg super slowly until I feel a bit ofndiscomfort and pai (not too much) and I gold it there for 5 to 10 seconds. Then I rest. Put the leg down and wait half a minute. Then I go again and this time I'll go further. Until you reach a point where it clicks and then it's done.
Take your time, and don't stress. The key to this movement is to have the leg completely relaxed. If you tense up (and you will for sure at the beginning, your legs will resist the torsion and make itnimpossible to click) . You habe to consciously relax your leg, know that you're gonna feel a little pain ytbthat it's just literally a few seconds.
Anyway, enough with me ranting.
How I do it practically ? I've experimented with 2 techniques
CONVENTIONAL
2 HANDS
See next post
G-Nail on femurs in Greece on Aug24th. Let's do this!!!
CONVENTIONAL
this is the technique that the doctor recommended and that I tried when I was in hospital at day 0, day1 and 2.
I can only manage to use on my left leg. Can't click the right leg with this technique. It is very convenient compared to the one I use now because tou don't have to hold your leg with your arm. You just lay in bed, watching TV. And when you get the right angle, clicks are very easy
See videos below
https://streamable.com/zykwe8
(And let me know if the lin doesn't work please)
2 HANDS TWISTING
This technique is the one I prefer now because the conventional sometimes is hard to find the angle and I end up twisting and twisting my leg without finding the click and that puts a lot of strain and fatigue to my muscle.
So, wit this technique, as you can see from videos below, you use one hand on your knee to make it pivot and the other one on the calf/shin to pull the leg outwards.
If you do it slowly is really almost painless.
See videos below
LEFT LEG
https://streamable.com/z4xgzo
RIGHT LEG
https://streamable.com/l4ys7j
Quote from: OzBoy39 on September 10, 2022, 06:31:48 AM2 HANDS TWISTING
This technique is the one I prefer now because the conventional sometimes is hard to find the angle and I end up twisting and twisting my leg without finding the click and that puts a lot of strain and fatigue to my muscle.
So, wit this technique, as you can see from videos below, you use one hand on your knee to make it pivot and the other one on the calf/shin to pull the leg outwards.
If you do it slowly is really almost painless.
See videos below
LEFT LEG
https://streamable.com/z4xgzo
RIGHT LEG
https://streamable.com/l4ys7j
Looks like a good technique!
This seems like a game-changer in the LL field.
Revolution has begun!
This method of clicking is exactly what I use too for my left leg but I can’t hold it in the air for too long so I need a band around my heel and then do the trick. It really is less painful because it needs less rotation.
Anyone in the Montaza hotel? Aside from the economy supermarket store nearby, any other useful locations to know about? Might be an ATM around, anything else?
I'm not at Montaza but first thing I suggest you to do is
Download the app Wolt. You can order pretty much everything there, from food to groceries to laundry to electronic gadgets and more.
Quote from: RealLostSoul on September 10, 2022, 06:35:57 PMThis method of clicking is exactly what I use too for my left leg but I can’t hold it in the air for too long so I need a band around my heel and then do the trick. It really is less painful because it needs less rotation.
Same for me but I actually use my arm to hold the leg up. And I wedge my arm above a pillow so I don't really have to use much force to hold it in there. I'm still trying to improve the position but so far I can manage to do 4 or 5 clicks in one go...then rest for 30 sec and then go again.
Quote from: Infinite on September 10, 2022, 05:33:30 PMLooks like a good technique!
This seems like a game-changer in the LL field.
Revolution has begun!
Haha nice. Yeah let's revolutionise the world.
Joking aside, yeah this technique works well so far, but as posted by RealLostSoul in the other message it could be improved. When the nurses were here to help they use to hold my leg up and then I twisted it. That allowed me to relax the leg even more and therefore reaching the click easier. It'd be col to have some sort of stool or box of the right height to rest your leg on and just twist it. Anyway... enough with daydreaming, off to some more clicking I go.
Update at 20 days post-op (23mm distraction)
Yesterday I had my first x-ray and follow-up visit with Dr Giotikas
I can't yet upload the x-rays as they ve given those to me on a CD and ... Who has a cd player in his laptop these days? EU privacy laws are a bit outdated.
Anyway, the x-ray didn't show any particular problem. Nail is straight. Bone is starting to grow and the gap as of yesterday was at approximately 23mm.
We decided to lower the click rate from 15 to 12 clicks a day (0.8mm).
This is to reduce the stress on my legs and also reduce the duckass effect which i can already notice.
I'm upping my stretching routine and incorporating more complex movements now that my legs allow me to do them.
Specifically I'll be adding:
- Hip flexor stretches on the edge of the bed (really useful and ... Painful at the same time).
- Abductor stretching in the form of butterfly pose and also laying lateral extensions using the strap provided by PT.
- Hamstring stretch both standing and laying on the bed with the strap.
I feel this is gonna be the real battle in the months ahead. As the PT guy said, the secret to success is to always try to be a little ahead with stretching than your soft tissue requires.
And btw, at 23mm only, I already noticed the difference in height. Not much, but enough to give a boost of motivation. I can only imagine what it'd feel when I reach around 5cm and more.
Finger crossed as always and keep on strerching
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