Cannot walk after finished lengthening for 1 month (Precice tibia 5.72cm)

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Quote from: dragonslayer on June 22, 2023, 12:47:31 PMFor everyone who planning to do the surgery especially for tibia, the thing may not like your expected, it's not a 'DON'T DO IT', but really don't blindly do it.

It's been a month since I stopped lengthening, but I cannot tell how long I can return to normal life. For now I cannot straight my legs and I have ballerina foot now and because of the Precice nails I cannot stand up without support.

But I do exercise everyday and I believe eventually I will return to normal life without surgery treatment (it's the last method to gain the basically functions but would cause permanently damage), but at least it would take other months from now.

So for those people who did lengthening and during recovery period, I hope you can shall the progress and the others can know, and I will share mine in this post.

Now I mainly do these exercises:

A. Sit down on wheelchair and my heels is above the ground and use my own muscles to move my heels towards inside, repeatedly 2 mins, for each foot, and then circle my ankle repeatedly 2 mins for each foot. This is for my ankle flexibility (terrible right now)

B. Use my two hands grab my foot rotate to outside, 60 times per foot.

C. Put my feet on another chair and try to straight my legs as much as I can, and keep it for 10-20 mins.

D. Sit down and find the point I can keep my feet touch the ground and then move them little back and use my hands to push them to touch ground and keep a while, then I can remove my hands but they still touch ground then move them little back more and repeat.

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Quote from: balme on June 23, 2023, 03:27:19 AMaren't you supposed to need 2-3 months to walk normally after stopping lengthening anyway? I don't get it.

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Quote from: balme on June 23, 2023, 03:27:19 AMaren't you supposed to need 2-3 months to walk normally after stopping lengthening anyway? I don't get it.

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Quote from: Hagane on June 23, 2023, 05:34:41 PMits should be a gradual increase yes from partial weightbearing to full weight bearing with support to  fullweightbearing

but from what he typed it sounds like he is still wheelchairbound and cannot walk at all
 where he should at least be mobilizing with walker

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Quote from: EndGame on June 23, 2023, 06:51:20 PMOne should be able to mobilize with walker during lengthening starting about one week post op. It's just you must push down to de-weight. At Paley Institute they have you stand on scale while pushing down to get a good sense for how hard you must push down to stay within safe limits. It's usually 2+ months of consolation before that changes. I feel for him having gone through it myself but his experience sounds typical as to be expected from what he wrote.

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