Quote from: Deepak Chopra on October 08, 2015, 02:48:24 AMI dont believe real Paley patient would have his leg snap unless he was doing something against his advice. Doctor Paley is god of leg lengthening.
Very ignorant comment. Complications (including serious ones) can happen with an doctor and this proves it.
The muscles surrounding the femurs are very powerful. Some people can lift insane amounts when doing squats. Having those powerful muscles exerting pressure on the leg in a weird way, it appears, can cause the bone to break.
This is very very depressing news to hear. I've been rooting for Programdude for a long time now. His diary was my go-to guide when I was doing my femurs with Paley.
But wasn't the bone significantly consolidated? Muscles can be sprained, but how can a stretch just break a bone?
Hope he gets better.
Wow. Hope all goes well brother and you could recover fast !
Quote from: Penguinn on October 08, 2015, 07:27:26 AMBut wasn't the bone significantly consolidated? Muscles can be sprained, but how can a stretch just break a bone?
This. 1000 times this. I don't know how can a muscle stretch break a healthy bone. Maybe the Precice was somewhat damaged (for example due to early weight bearing) and it finally broke, snapping the bone? Just an idea...
My best wishes to him.
Quote from: musicmaker on October 08, 2015, 01:48:37 PMHi dude. I also had a bad fracture while LLing and had to be reoperated. Im sure you will be OK. As a matter of fact, its better you have had a fracture at this stage of the process, and not before, which would have been much worse. Keep strong. You will be fine. We support you. 
Hi musicmaker. What was the cause of the fracture? I'm considering internal for femurs and these news are really worrying to say the least.
The bone was probably still hollow from rod removal and not completely healed where the rods used to be. Stretching may have been the needle that broke the camel's back, meaning that the unhealed bones were so weakened by other strenuous activities not related to stretching, that a simple stretch pushed the femur past its stress threshhold, making it snap.
Programdude, I hope you bounce back from this as well as possible and make a speedy and total recovery.
Hey all. Thanks for all the support.
I am back home after a pretty awful experience with my leg being broken in half for 24 hours.
For two days prior to this incident I had felt some leg pain, but assumed it was muscular pain as I am long past weight training clearance dr. R gave me, and was given immediate clearance for walking etc. I was doing a few extra stretches to try and resolve this pain, and was standing in line at the store when I casually did a stretch using one arm. There was a huge snap audible to everyone around me, every muscle in my leg spasmed, and to my shock when I went to place the leg on the ground it bent the wrong way at the femur. Adrenaline caused me to be extraordinarily calm as I called a friend to bring me to the hospital, and asked the person besides me to please bring over the electric shopping cart.
I got to the front of the store then the pain and severity of the situation hit me like a truck. My friend arrived and had to carry me into the back seat. Upon arrival it took TWO HOURS to get pain medication as because my pain tolerance is high and I told them I had snapped is stretching, they didn't fully believe me. Of course once they saw the x ray they apologized profusely and medicated me. i had to be transferred to a higher calibur facility, and after a terrible night was operate on, with a rod being put back in my leg.
I was extremely nervous before PT and walking, worrying it would be extremely painful and that an important trip I had coming up would be off the table. Fortunately walking on crutches was ok, and I even walked some without them. I believe my muscular development and previous experience with these injuries is doing me a lot of favors. Currently it is actually my knee which hurts more than anything else for some reason. I probably hurt it by stepping on it funny while medicated on crutches.
The next few days/weeks I hope will be promising, as trauma settles down.
And to the fool talking about not listening to Paley's protocol, this has nothing to do with him. It was Dr. R, his former partner who removed my rods, and is responsible for this event.
Also, there seems to be misinformation here- my precice rods have been removed for MONTHS. They were not in during this fracture.
Do you know why this happened? It seemed as if you should have been fully to near consolidated by now. I mean it didn't happen to your other leg. Anyways how does this erect your recovery time now, any time frames for this? Stay strong dude.
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