How much weight can non weight bearing precise 2.2 nails support?

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Right I know its not weight bearing and you should use a wheelchair

Even still, I've seen someone with both femurs and tibias precise (so 4 precise nails inside of him) use a walker to walk, which surprised me. Though he was very light, maybe like 125 pounds

Even though my freshman year weight was like 130 ish pounds, I think realistically if I tried very hard I could only get down to maybe 147 pounds minimum at this point

I know it would still be above the weight limit but I am just trying to get a rough idea of how bad the situation would be

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Quote from: SpeedDialer on September 27, 2022, 08:35:52 PMRight I know its not weight bearing and you should use a wheelchair

Even still, I've seen someone with both femurs and tibias precise (so 4 precise nails inside of him) use a walker to walk, which surprised me. Though he was very light, maybe like 125 pounds

Even though my freshman year weight was like 130 ish pounds, I think realistically if I tried very hard I could only get down to maybe 147 pounds minimum at this point

I know it would still be above the weight limit but I am just trying to get a rough idea of how bad the situation would be

I'm 110 pounds. Hopefully I'll be able to walk on Precice

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took some digging but i found this
https://www.nuvasive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/PRECICE-Technique-Guide-Femur.pdf

on page 37:
After the distraction phase has been completed, the patient’s weight-bearing status must be limited (8.5mm = 30lbs; 10.7/12.5mm = 50lbs) until bony healing.
Once 3 out of 4 cortices have consolidated and at the physician’s discretion, the patient is advanced to weight bearing as tolerated.

which means that depending on the diameter of nail is the amount of load the nail is able to support
keep in mind that movement will increase the load onto each leg even more

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Yeah I wonder how it is for internal tibia

I'm doing internal gnail now, thinking of doing precise 2.2 internal tibia later

I mean ideally I will have lost alot of weight by then

I see an LL patient with precise femurs who still uses a walker, I sort of wonder how things change for internal tibia

I think if I work hard I can get to like 150 pounds and then that will probably still be over the tibia weight limit but I wonder in practice how bad / dangerous the situation will be on a walker with internal tibias at that weight. I think more realistically I will only get down to like 160 pounds

Alot of times randomly with gnail I'll briefly be supported by only my two legs when I'm moving the walker and I feel fine

I saw a guy who doing both internal femur and internal tibia at the same time but his situation was unique because of the 4 nails + he was under 130 pounds