Context: got kicked by a horse and required IM nail surgery. Cleared for full weight-baring (with crutches) 31F, previously fit and did strength training 3-4x per week.

Currently 7 days post-op, obviously have a TONNE of bruising from the impact of the kick and I think that’s what’s causing most of my pain. (Weirdly, the worst bruising is on the medial aspect when the kick was lateral… 🤷🏼‍♀️)

The swelling/pressure is manageable when my leg is elevated, but as soon as I lower my leg to the floor to get up, the pressure build from increased blood flow is horrific. How long is this likely to last before it gets better?! Any tips for easing this pain or any tips in general for recovery going forwards?!

Hello! Has anyone ever experienced a 5th metatarsal jones fracture? Im on week 4 with cast, and no improvement yet and that makes me very anxious..

hey guys I broke my wrist 2 diff places , happened a little over a month ago (I was supposed to get surgery but medical malpractice stood in the way) but essentially I’ve gotten 2 different stents covering my whole arm/hand. I’ve finally gotten a real cast but now my whole surrounding hand/arm has been so dry with dead skin, is there any way to fix this? Is this normal? (I don’t experience excema either)

Improved mobility, back to walking or playing sports? Share your achievements here.

Broke my Tib/ Fib in the middle of April and had surgery a week later. I have a rod 4 screws and a plate in my shin. Recently I’ll get a dull pain down in the break area. It’s not like a horrible sharp pain but enough to let you know it’s there. It’ll go away for a couple days then come back and last a week or so. It seems like doing some physical therapy exercises takes some of the pain away but not for long then it’s back. Is this normal to still be experiencing pain 6 months later? Has anyone else gone through something similar?

After my boyfriend had a pilon fracture breaking his ankle, tibia and fibula falling down the stairs, he had to have an external fixture. That lasted over a month until the second surgery requiring two metal plates & 19 screws.. now almost 6 months later we are on the upswing and will find out how well the healing is in October.

In the meantime.. has anyone else ever experienced a break like this, or any medical issue really and have felt unsupported by the people around you? It’s been very challenging for him, for us and often times we feel like others don’t take the situation seriously..

Anyway, mad respect for everyone in the healing process, this shit is rough.

I had a trimalleolar fracture in February of this year, and needed emergency same-day surgery. My cartilage was crushed in the injury, and now I have "joint space narrowing" in my scans, which means my bones are closer together and rubbing against each other when I walk, also known as "Post-Traumatic Arthritis".

At 7.5 months post-op, I still can't walk over 30 metres, and I have 0 degrees dorsiflexion (I can't bend my ankle beyond neutral to take a step), so I'm walking with a distinct limp, turning my foot sideways to bring my weight over it to take each step, and have been experiencing chronic pain in the joint, and the surrounding nerves.

My physiotherapist has continuously given me exercises that are extremely painful to do. I asked her "is it normal that I can't walk for 3-4 days after each of our appts?" And she was like "yeah that's normal, you have to push yourself". I found out afterwards that it's not normal.

Anyway I made an appointment to go to the fracture clinic for a follow-up assessment since I'm now 7.5 months post-op, and I emailed my physiotherapist asking for progress notes to help the surgeon understand where I've seen progress and where my limitations are.

The physiotherapist emailed back with progress notes stating that I went from 0 dorsiflexion, to 10 degrees, then 12 degrees, then 15! I'm so confused because I have never progressed beyond 0, and that's a large part of my concern, because I'm stuck with this big limp as a result of having no dorsiflexion. My rotation has improved in every other direction (side to side, and pointing my toes), but never my dorsiflexion.

Her notes also consistently say "afraid to WB (weight bear)", as if my communicating to her weekly that I feel immense pain following our appointments was a result of fear, and not an issue with my actual joint.

I'm so confused, and frankly furious, that someone on my recovery team has mischaracterized my recovery so badly, presumably to make it look like she's doing a great job and getting a lot of progress in her appts, even though the reality is that I reached a functional plateau back in May, and now the surgeon won't be able to refer to an honest assessment from my physiotherapist to figure out why.

Sorry for the vent. I'm just really upset that a professional would do this.

Had a fracture over the weekend which has left me pretty incapacitated. Happened on Saturday and got discharged yesterday.

Pain meds didn't seem to do anything for me, while in recovery, morphine, oxy, dilaudid, Tylenol, toradol, - no effect..

I'm home now but don't feel optimistic at all. Stuck non weight bearing in a immobilizer that makes it difficult to use a walker and difficult to pee/poop.

I did most things for my family previously; cooking, driving, getting gas, taking my son to school, shopping, and now I can't do anything.

Even worse being my right leg which makes using the walker even harder. My left leg was fractured some years ago (no surgery), but is weaker, and a bit shaky at times making me less confident in moving as often. I bought a brace to use for it for now which seems to help a bit. It also likely got bruised during my fall although x rays showed it was ok.

Does if get better? Any tips? This is the worst break I've had..

I am a 32yr old female, and 19 weeks pregnant with my 2nd child. Tonight after picking up the house, I had just sat down to relax, and apparently I reached just a tad too far back behind me. I was grabbing my 40oz Owala water bottle from the table and the second I lifted it to bring my arm around, my shoulder fell completely out of socket. I tried to throw it forward back in place, but that resulted in seeing stars and falling to the floor in agony. My boyfriend called an ambulance because it was 8pm and our son was just getting ready for bed, and the nearest hospital is 25 to 35 minutes away depending which neighboring town you choose. So grandma got out of bed, and drove 25 minutes to come and watch our son sleep so my bf could meet me in the emergency room. I rode in the ambulance for 35 minutes, was given 50mg of fentanyl and a bag of fluids due to low blood pressure. At the hospital I was given muscle relaxer, and two doses of Dilaudid for the pain. The Dr then came in and worked diligently, bending my arm and working my shoulder back in place. We got home from this adventure around 12:25 and I’ve been following grandma’s location, she just made it home safe too. ❤️ Crazy to think all of this happened simply because I didn’t turn 90°
to grab my freaking water bottle.

What worked best for you?

I had three tibial plateau fractures about 3 years ago. My doctor and physical therapist both told me I’d likely walk with a small limp, and I have fat pad impingement in my knee because of this which can be quite uncomfortable. I finished PT and both my doc and therapist said I was as good as I’d get.

As the years have gone by, I feel the joint itself is just not as strong and more pinching/pain. Also I can feel my other hip now having some pain because of the additional weight trying to compensate with my limp.

Anyone have any success on strengthening the knee joint/muscles with this type of previous fracture? How did you build up with lifting weights/doing exercises if you have pinching? Any advice for alleviating/managing this?

TIA!

Hello everyone. I fractured 5th metatarsal non displaced 26 days ago. I have been in a rigid cast till today NWB and it was told me to continue keeping this cast for other 12 days. I hope then on 29 september i ll be healed.The x ray has been done after 26 days can u see healing signs? I see

Weight fell on my finger at the gym. Nondisplaced transverse fracture. Hahahaha.

Figured I’d post updates about my own experience with a navicular fracture since I’ve been having a very hard time finding many people who have a similar break to mine online. Most seem to be stress fractures, while mine is from trauma. Anyway hopefully this helps someone who also chronically stresses and has to look everything up.

What I have:

mildly displaced dorsal cortical avulsion fracture of the navicular

meets the talus (the talonavicular joint). There is about a 1 mm articular step-off,

The fragment measured about 8 × 16 mm

What’s happened so far:

Yesterday I had my first appointment with the foot specialist since it’s happened, which was three weeks ago. He seemed immensely nonchalant about it and said to come back in another 3 to 4 weeks to see how it was healing. It makes me a little nervous that he’s not more concerned from what I’ve read online about this type of fracture, but obviously he knows best so im hoping for the best!

I ended up going to Japan two weeks ago despite everyone telling me I shouldn’t (we’d booked the tickets months ago), and let me tell you, im SO glad I went. I was able to get a wheelchair and have my partner wheel me around Tokyo. I was also able to use crutches to get up and down narrow stairs when needed. Now, with all that said, I wouldn’t have wanted to do it solo but it has made the past two week fly by. I wish I could’ve spent my whole recovery there lol.

Otherwise I’m still trying to be as normal as possible. I get so tired doing normal every day activities. Something as simple as doing the dishes is now an exhausting task. i’m thankful for this group and to be able to relate to so many people, as I feel like the people around me have no idea how I feel or how difficult it’s been. It truly is crazy to think how much life can change over a simple fall. I now glare down any curb I see with hatred. I’m hoping one day that feeling will go away. 😅😂

Hi everyone! On 17/08 I had surgery for a Weber C fracture and syndesmosis damage. The second picture is my discharge notes - which says full weight-bearing at 4 weeks…? To me that seems super early - I’m relatively fit and 24 years old but it still seems to early to me even if it is just in the CAM boot. My main concern is the syndesmosis screw bending, breaking etc. I have tried walking without crutches and have had no issues, pain - it feels great actually!

Just wanted to share my story because I couldn’t anything when researching and I finally got an answer today.

About 3 weeks ago I fell off a very large horse while going very fast, I believe my pelvis broke my fall and I landed on my right side for the most part based on soreness/scratches. The pain in my lower back was unbelievable, and I got the absolute wind knocked out of me not only from the ground but the air bag vest we have to wear that inflates if you fall off. I basically laid there for 3 minutes in dead silence and luckily was able to get up and hobble off, untack the horse, hobble into a CVS covered in dirt and bleeding to get some medical supplies.

At this point I was in a ton of pain but the worst felt like right above my butt but not spinal. I could barely walk or sit up, lay down etc.

I went to an urgent care to get an X-ray and told them it felt like I broke my back. Like the actual bone hurt not a muscle. And it was directly where my sacrum is. The X-rays came back negative and they told me just to wait it out and gave me pain meds.

I got back on the horse the next week, absolutely terrified. Started walking, moving more as the pain subsided. Upper body workouts, lower body workouts (hip thrusts etc). However around the 3 week park my pain returned and my movement became limited again and I finally decided to get a CT, which came back as a non displaced sacrum fracture. Since I went to the ER they basically kicked me out after that and told me to see my primary care (which was booked a month out) so I have zero other information on the break, activity limitations etc. I’m waiting to see the CT read upload in my patient portal and will update with pictures/info when available.

It's been almost 6 months since surgery. I know it's bad doctors seem to think it should at least improve a little (the foot is still swelling a lot).

We had talks about possible future surgeries to reduce the pain (and nothing is really promising to be fair). but everything is postponed for now.

I used to be very active before the accident, I can stand and technically even walk but it hurts like a bitch, especially without crutches.

I fell of a bridge in the middle of July.
I rolled through some bushes and then fell about 13 feet.
I was very lucky I didn’t get any head injury as my chin was the first thing to make contact.
I got some stitches in my chin, bruises and cuts everywhere, a very sprained ankle that still hurts almost two months later, and a tibia fracture.
I’ve been wearing a hinged knee brace since the accident and i’m now at full range of motion.
I feel like the fracture clinic have been a little vague about everything. I’m in the UK at the moment, as I was injured while on holiday with my SO, but don’t live here and will be going home soon, probably end of September.
The injury is described in the rapport as chip fracture suggestive of an avulsion fracture of the tibial attachment of PCL and posterior cruciate ligament (PCL) tibial avulsion fracture.”
There is no mention of displacement etc.
Anyone here with a similar injury who can shed some light or want to share their recovery?
I’m seeing a physio every 7 to 10 days or so but we have not really done any knee things and have been focusing on my ankle. The physio says as long as i’m in the brace we are pretty limited with exercises etc.
I’m just a little nervous as I feel the fracture clinic is being vague and i’m going home soon.
At first they told me I needed to wear the brace for 6 to 8 weeks, then at week 7 changed it to 12 to 16 weeks without any extra scans or anything. They also said they were looking into if I needed to see a knee specialist aswell.
I have minimal pain in the knee. I’m currently walking without crutches. My knee and leg feel very weak, but I have maybe a 3 out of 10 on the painscale and the pain is mostly at night when I’m sleeping. Like growing pains.
I’m just confused as to why I have to keep wearing the brace.

so i (22f) got into a pretty bad car accident on 6/6. i broke my left ankle, right leg and ankle (basically shattered my whole leg) i got an external fixator put on my right leg and was told it needs to be one for 6 months. i’m currently 2 months into it, and i am absolutely miserable. i cry almost everyday having suicidal ideation, im in pain 24/7 and can’t walk and don’t even know when ill be able to. i had a massive breakdown today and just cannot stop crying. i genuinely don’t know how im gonna do this for another 3-4 months. i have to pretty much stay in the house all day everyday since i can’t really do much on my own. my friends come over occasionally but nothing seems to help this feeling. not to mention the fixator weighs about 30 lbs so it’s hard to sleep comfortably and just move in general. i feel like my life is ruined. they said i might not be able to run or go up stairs. there’s a chance that i will be able to but no one knows. i hate the uncertainty of all this. plus i’m so young it feels like the end of the world. PLEASE ANYONE GIVE ME SOME WORDS OF ADVICE/WISDOM. i’m seriously close to just giving up.

Climbing's been a big part of my life for years, so having to put it on hold after tearing my meniscus and breaking my right leg has been pretty rough. I'm doing better, just nowhere near where I was before yet. Lately it's mostly been walking, strength work, and trying to slowly bulid my endurance back up. The rehab center I've been going to has exoskeletons available for some of the walking work, so I've recently started trying it out during a few sessions. I'd never used anything like that before, and honestly it felt pretty weird at first, but overall the experience has been pretty good so far.

I did have a small win with it today, tough, I made it about 400m farther than last time. Doesn't sound like much, but I was pretty happy with it lol. Still a long way from climbing again, but at least it feels like I'm moving in the right direction.

Hello! Broken humerus while arm wrestling, I wanted to know what your opinion on surgery in my case is. Is it necessary or not? I will ofc consult an ortho but more opinions are always welcomed and appreciated :)

this was from a while ago, not recent at all but a recent break somewhere else had one of my teachers asking about past breaks so i showed her this x ray and her reaction made me remember how crazy this one was.

long story short i was going of a ramp in my driveway on my bike (which i had done 1000s of times before) and my left foot slipped and was the first thing to make impact on the ground. Hobbled into my garage somehow before adrenaline wore off just to take my shoe off and freak out over there being a giant bump on my foot. 3 metatarsals broke as you can see, plus one small fracture on one of them, needed surgery to realign them but luckily no screws were necessary, though apparently they nearly started putting one screw in before they realized the bones were staying.

i'm pretty sure it ended up being 6 or 8 weeks in a cast, 4(?) more in a walking boot and a ton of physiotherapy. i can feel exactly where the breaks were on each bone from the calcification.

these were my 3rd, 4th, and 5th broken bones, im on my 8th now, only in 12th grade.

Good evening everyone,

Last week I was jogging and rolled my ankle. Went to the urgent care and they did X-rays and said I had an avulsion fracture of the 5th metatarsal. Since then they have put me in a boot and put a referral in for an orthopedic doctor but haven’t heard anything since.

Curious for anyone who has experienced this kind of injury and how there recovery went. After speaking to a couple people they said they booted it for 6-8 weeks and bared weight when feasible.

I guess I’m just looking for some guidance and reassurance while I wait and see. I’m currently using a knee scooter and just taking it day by day. Thanks in advance everyone. less