balance, proprioception loss

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Dear,

I am doing 5 cm LON Tibia. A few weeks after surgery I lost the ability to weightbare on one leg. I feels like I'm gonna collaps completely if I dont put weight on my arms as support. My other leg is perfectly normal. I do a lot of excercices the physiotherapists gave me but I dont feel any change.

I was wondering if there is someone else with the same problem of if someone knows something about this problem.

Kind regards!

Jolien

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I'm already past consolidation, and my weight bearing on one leg is still much worse, I did 5.5cm tibia.

I am doing one-leg pistol squats to strengthen my weak right leg more, but it also feels like it's not progressing. But, it eventually should even out. My advice is to ask the doctor about how even your lengthening is. Even though you may lengthen the same on both legs, small differences in each leg may cause one leg to weight bear more than the other, making it feel weaker. My legs were checked for this, and it turned out my leg was shorter initially. But, for months it was off-balance.

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Quote from: Jolien on April 16, 2019, 04:49:57 PMDear,

I am doing 5 cm LON Tibia. A few weeks after surgery I lost the ability to weightbare on one leg. I feels like I'm gonna collaps completely if I dont put weight on my arms as support. My other leg is perfectly normal. I do a lot of excercices the physiotherapists gave me but I dont feel any change.

I was wondering if there is someone else with the same problem of if someone knows something about this problem.

Kind regards!

Jolien

Can you stand on both legs though without holding on to the walker?

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You looked good in the squat video, what have happened?

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Quote from: jcayabo on April 16, 2019, 05:44:22 PMI'm already past consolidation, and my weight bearing on one leg is still much worse, I did 5.5cm tibia.

I am doing one-leg pistol squats to strengthen my weak right leg more, but it also feels like it's not progressing. But, it eventually should even out. My advice is to ask the doctor about how even your lengthening is. Even though you may lengthen the same on both legs, small differences in each leg may cause one leg to weight bear more than the other, making it feel weaker. My legs were checked for this, and it turned out my leg was shorter initially. But, for months it was off-balance.

Thank you for your reply. In the beginning I had local pain on my right leg, the doctor said to not walk to much which I interpreted in not use the right leg to much. So I didnt weightbare on that leg. I think that is the cause of all this. I do have leg length difference. I'm gonna ask my doctor about this!

I'm now doing squats on one leg a everyday for a few weeks but I dont feel any progress, which really freeks my out.

Thanks again for your very interesting reply, mean a lot.

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Quote from: Great321 on April 16, 2019, 06:44:58 PMCan you stand on both legs though without holding on to the walker?

Yes I can, as long as my left leg is on the ground I'm oke.

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Quote from: wannagrowtaller on April 17, 2019, 06:44:01 PMYou looked good in the squat video, what have happened?

I did the squats because of this problem. I need the bars for my balance.

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Quote from: Jolien on April 18, 2019, 10:50:33 AMYes I can, as long as my left leg is on the ground I'm oke.

My left leg is also stronger than my right leg when it comes to weight bearing. But my right leg was always stronger during PT. So it's not about the muscles I guess.

Maybe it gets better when the frames come off.

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Quote from: Great321 on April 18, 2019, 12:36:13 PMMy left leg is also stronger than my right leg when it comes to weight bearing. But my right leg was always stronger during PT. So it's not about the muscles I guess.

Maybe it gets better when the frames come off.

I really really hope so!!! Everybody here tells me I have to first stretch my heel till it perfectly touches the ground before I can work on my balance. I try to balance on my toes, normal people can walk on their toes right? So that excludes my calf problem.

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I'm not sure if your doctor will recommend it, but I sincerely suggest making the switch from a zimmer walker to forearm crutches. You will build the small muscles you really need to weight bear when walking, and you just don't build them on a zimmer walker. My form and walking ability has literally shot up drastically in the last 2 weeks longer than many months with a walker. I am almost able to walk using only 1 arm crutch as well now.