Quote from: applesandoranges on November 30, 2016, 02:45:48 AMQuestion: after your treatment is done, and you remove the nail, does the bone remain hollow or does bone regrow inside the bone where the nail was? thanks
That is something that I'vent thought about but I can ask the doctor and let you know. Imo, the bone should remain hollow and I'm almost certain that it will.
I left the hospital yesterday. I had such a good relationship with the nurses there that I had a bit of mixed feelings when leaving.
I reside at MIC now and will do for at least 1 month. If I like it here I will stay longer. I walked in crutches for about 1h and a half while shopping and Claudio kinda scolded me for doing so LOL. Apparently, walking is key for my recovery but not for such a long period. I'vent taken any painkillers for 30 hours (now that I mention it, I haven't taken any medication at all during that period) and I might just stay away from them for the time being.
Although Claudio told me I'm doing very good I will still take his PT sessions 3 days a week for 1 month. It feels great at the end of each session.
What else... I've got a ball to play with in my appartment!
2 weeks post op.
That's right! My surgery was 2 weeks ago so I decided to throw in an update.
I am at 1cm and lentghning 0,81mm per day. Pain has been minimal except for last night, I had to take a tramadol for the first time. I suspect that the reason why I had so much pain is because I pushed myself too hard when stretching during the day. Also, my swelling is still very noticeable and I shouldn't have tryed to bend my knee so much during the exercises. However, it did pay off as my bending seems to have improved from yesterday to today. As they say, "no pain, no gain".
Every day I walk a bit, I go to gym twice, I do stretching exercises and I also rest, ofc. Btw, I ice my leg every time I come from the gym and at the end of any exercise. I am able to put much more weight in my leg but I avoid to do so.
As you can see nothing out of the ordinary has happened so far so I don't have much to say, thankfully. I think that the next step is to remove the stitches from my leg.
We should do some workouts and stretching in the gym together!
It is more fun and more motivational, especially that we are probably at a similar stage of the rehab process.
Btw, I am at room 302.
I got the same reasoning as Auron:
from the people that had less than ideal recoveries, everyone went beyond 6 cm.
So I also want to do just 5.5 cm.
5.5 cm is reasonable I agree
Quote from: helloworld on December 08, 2016, 09:31:19 PMWe should do some workouts and stretching in the gym together!
It is more fun and more motivational, especially that we are probably at a similar stage of the rehab process.
Btw, I am at room 302.
We totally should!
I am at room 4.6. I will ring your doorbell at around 4pm so we can go to the gym and do some training, what do you think?
Will you use special shoes for the discrepancy??? Can those shoes damage the spine??
What has your pain been like?
I'm using insoles with different heights, shoe lifters work as well. Special shoes is another option. It shouldn't damage the spine, at least mine is pretty good so far.
Recently I've been having this pain in the right side of the kneecap, but only when I move my leg side ways. I talked to the doctor and we thought it could be the tip of the screw initially but then we figured out that the pain was coming from where the femur meets the tibia. So it turns out that to prevent this pain I should try to land always with my heel first then the rest of the foot and I wasn't doing so because my extension isnt as good as before the surgery. The pain seems to be fading away slowly each day. I don't feel any need to take painkillers during the day and lately I always take a tramadol 50gm before I go to bed. So yeah, unless I take my medicine at night the pain gets annoying.
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