Anyone ever fractured your talus? Got mine today as a anterior avulsion chip. How long it the healing time on one of these. I've got a meeting with the orthopod next week. Thanks in advance!
Thanks for the ubeat thoughts. I'm 31 and never broke anything except ribs. We were clearing some land for our new office amd one of the guys hit me from behind with the skid steer tire, driving my leg and foot into the ground. Lucky that's all that broke I guess. Thanks for the info.
I broke mine 10years ago still hurts every day. I do have hardware in mine. it really depends how bad the break is. hope all is good with yours. mine took over a year to heal.
My friend did this and we got him surgery straight away, that was in May he is now only able to put light pressure on his foot. its not a fast healing bone its alot like the scaphoid not much blood flow to it. Sorry to hear that.
You let a skid steer sneek up on ya? :wow: Your right about lucky, Tenderfoot. Just kidding, hope it all heals fine.
Exploded mine about 7 years ago and was locked in an external fixator for a year, actually healed up real well considering they wanted to just fuse the ankle and be done with it, finished off with a screw. Like they said real low blood flow anything you can do for the blood flow or bone healing is worth it. I used a vitamin supplement called Pro Trauma that I got from a chiropractor. The doctors were amazed it actually healed like it did! Heal up :up:
Had mine pinned back together in '91, 12 weeks in a cast, pins removed, then rehab. I was able to work again in 6 months. That foot always aches.
Tenderfoot huh....lmao. my mechanic called me the same thing. I was on the phone giving directions to a driver and the operator backed into me. Oh well. Riding is out for the rest of the year.....boo and I've got a shit pile of wood that needs split. Oh what a wonderful fall it will be. All of you guys and gals be safe out there! Thanks
Out of all of us that had the injury, I'm the lucky bastard that got my ankle completely fused! F@ck me!
My doc talked about that as well. I'm thinking it must have been a small fracture for those that were walking at 6 weeks. I broke mine when I was in my mid 20's so it wasn't old age that made mine heal slow. I was in a cast for 3 months and had to use that damn bledsoe boot for another 5 months. I still used that boot occasionally for the next year or so. IIRC, I was off crutches after about a month and a half. I did however put the street stuff on my racebike a week after I broke my Talus, because it was WAY easier to ride the bike and hop around than attempt to drive the manual pickup with the right foot in the cast. Some people looked at me funny
yeah doc said mine was one of the worst if not the worst he had ever seen, plus i had a dislocated ankle. Poor blood flow is a bitch when it come to feet and hands.
Anyone else do this recently? I fractured and dislocated mine, Hawkins 3 in ortho lingo has >90% chance of AVN! It's been 12 weeks, just started walking today without a boot. Has been a bit of adjustment. Also fractured and dislocated my right shoulder and fractured my left wrist...on a brand new R1 practicing for the season on my second time out on a the new bike and had a big tank-slapper which lost me the brakes I found out at t1 going ~160. Had to bail before I hit the steel Armco which I did anyway. But whatever. Surgery went good, 3 pins holding it together. PT sucks, tried riding...but shifting is tough. For those who have been there, is the return to normal or function really a year plus? What has helped you? Thanks!
I did mine in 1998. Got a screw to peice it together. B4 my last car accident, i had my back fused to tail bone. it is the longest healing bone i broke.,sholder,ribs,wrist, pelvis,head,clavicles, hip,neck. Sry to hear. I was lucky it was my right foot. It took me a year to walk with out some kind of brace.
