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Suffered a TPF on July 3rd, had surgery the 13th. Ive read horror stories about this injury and i really hope ill be able to walk/jog normally again and then ride again.
I came up short on a jump and just slid down the landing and my right leg just snapped outwards.
Anyone suffer this injury? I had a meniscus tear but no ligament damage.
I came up short on a jump and just slid down the landing and my right leg just snapped outwards.
Anyone suffer this injury? I had a meniscus tear but no ligament damage.
Similar fracture, only I did do some ligament damage. Mine happened in '03 so I can give you a long term, "how's it gonna feel in...?". It hasn't kept me from doing anything, I'll put it that way. It gets sore from time to time, but I still ride a lot and do other things. Most days I don't even notice any pain. The soreness anymore is in the hardware & worn cartilage. Wear knee braces if you don't already. I tore my meniscus, MCL and PCL, so needless to say the support kinda sucks. The braces are a great piece of mind for me and I don't ride w/o them, ever.
Was this a moto crash? (Answered in the op, oops) Were you wearing braces? I was not...
Ive been riding with them since asterisk's first came out and wouldn't dare ride without them now. I don't even notice them when on the bike.
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I worked my ass off in rehab, I only lost just a few degrees of movement. I can still ride, I do BMX, even Karate. You can be fine you just have to work to heal yourself properly. And keep working on getting the most motion you can out of it.
971 appears to have lost the cartilage on one side.
I drove the femur down shearing off 4 inch chucks on each side leaving the top pointed.
Lost cartilage and now have several degrees of downsloping on each side. That leg is half inch shorter also.
Mine hurts all day and all nite. Dread ever morning when i lay down at bedtime.
I call it my "proximal Tibial Plateau fracture" (not a doctor)
Mine was just the nodule that fits into the distal femoral "receptacle" and I was actually jogging in a couple of weeks.
Years later I wanted CTi braces, so I went to an ortho known in our area for moto repairs.
He laughed at the x-rays, saying he would have cut me open and pinned it tight.
As it is, I can slightly rotate my lower leg a bit within the knee.
My current ortho says when I reach my mid 70s, he will likely install a new knee.(he wants a new boat)
I blame a very strong ACL on this fracture, as it occurred from a hyper-extension with my leg extended in a slick corner. I have never had an ACL issue in 50 years of riding.
I am 64 and still race often, with knee braces, of course!
I'd had knee reconstruction 20 yrs prior,acl,pcl,mcl. They used my kneecap tendon for donor tissue,i was worried about HIV in 90,and there is a screw right in the middle of the plateau that held the acl donor.
The plateau split right there and blew 2 four inch long chunks off each side of my leg.
Lost the cartilage and the plateau is supposed to be cupped to hold the femur,mine is like a upside down bowl that lets the femur slip around.
I have 8 3inch long screws,4 esch side that held the chunks and then 20 more screws that hold a L shaped plate that goes down to my ankle.
My doctor sucked,should have left and went to a sports guy.
OH,AND, I did it Saturday and laid at home till Thursday before he operated, I was stupid really stupid to let him fix it.
Broke mine April 18th of last year. It nearly cost me my career and it did cost me being able to ride. The recovery for me was long and painful. I can relate to Hillbilly with going to bed dreading the pain of waking up. Sometimes it's incredibly painful during the day or at night when I'm out with the family and I'm on it a lot. In my case, the plateaus weren't just broken, but shattered.
Hopefully your recovery isn't bad. Follow the doctors orders and start PT with a good therapist as soon as possible.
Good luck.
The pain is why i yoyo on painmeds. Its a choice of being in misery all day,all night,or getting some relief for periods of time.
The injury hasn't kept me from doing anything but I can always tell its there.
I will need to have the knee fixed again soon now that I'm 33.
I went to the head surgeon for the Dallas Cowboys and Dallas Stars, Daniel Cooper, M.D. He told me half my knee was jacked, but the other half was okay -- the idea, he said, was we would cut into the femur, essentially removing a pizza slice from the bone, thereby redistributing the weight to the better side of my knee.
Although he had only tried this once before, it worked, so if they tell you you will never run again, you might ask them about this type of operation.
Good luck with everything, it's a rare fracture (surprised to see so many responses here) but if handled properly, you'll come out on top.
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I was not wearing knee braces (stupid I know, broke recent college grad is a bad excuse)
I do wear these fly knee guards that go from the shin to the thigh, no doubt more damage would have been done if I had just traditional knee pads.
But overall I have to say my surgeon did a fantastic job and I am almost done with my first full week of PT, they're very optimistic about my recovery. I'll take the early on-set arthritis, but I'm gonna let this heal correctly and not rush it. Time to put the brand new Husky away until next year but it'll be worth it.
Once again thanks guys it's really good to hear others experience with this injury, it's a scary one
Another problem is I drove the foot up thru my ankle on the other leg ruining the joint so both my legs are fubar.
I seriously think about cutting them off and getting a couple of them big springs .
i had the same fracture, i hyper-extended my leg while wakeboarding and it split from my knee to about 3 inches above my ankle. it didn't sliver off or separate so they just put me in a removable cast. i had to wear that fucker for about 5 months, it still kills me from time to time. sometimes it feels like my leg is splitting, no amount of IB profin will help. also, after i removed the leg cast i strained my MCL really bad, so i had to wear the god damn brace again for another 4 weeks.
best of luck
Dude just make sure you're taking stool softeners, that's all I got.
And we pay big bucks to do this to ourselves!
Conspiracy theory is the the motorcycle OEMs are owned by the Orthopedic Associations.
(Unless he says you should stop riding...then find yourself another doctor. haha)
Here's my X-Ray....oh yeah, and 2 years ago I did a tib/fib on the same side and have another 23 screws there. I have 32 screws and 4 plates in my left tib/fib and plateau; all hardware is still there and none of it bothers me....not even when it gets cold.....and as I said above, I can still run long distances and race moto too. There is good life to be had after a tib plateau fracture!....and I'm 51 years old.
edit: The more I look at your x-ray Nick, the more I'm thinking that looks really, really good as far as tib plateau repairs go.
My OS did a miraculous job and this could've been a lot worse.
Seriously thanks to everyone for their input
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