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My friend is going through the exact same injury. He broke his back in May and was allowed to walk about 2 weeks or 3 ago. The only thing the doctors are worried about is the "head" of the femur dying. Apparently it takes around a year before they will know or not, and if it dies then he needs to get a half replacement.

12 years ago I had a very similar break to this while road racing. I was 39. The doctor told me I'd devastated my hip, would have a hard time walking again, etc. I was pretty angry at him for saying that, when he hadn't even operated yet and I needed to stay as positive and calm as possible. However, he did a great job pinning me back together. Not a people person, that guy, but a good mechanic! Like you, there was a long period of no weight bearing, then a chair, crutches, and finally a cane. It took...

Actually it is a femoral neck fracture. There are a couple ways to stabilize it (open reduction internal fixation). The hip pinning (which is what was done), the dynamic hip screw or a short tro-fix At your young age, I would think a total hip replacement would not be recommended unless the acetabulum was affected. Otherwise you will just need a total hip revision down the road when it wears out.

Breaking the genital neck is a common injury in older people suffering with osteoporosis. I believe they get a new hip right away. I busted my femur. Had a pin put through the centre of the bone with a screw at each end. That was twenty years ago. It’s been no problem until this past year or so... butt cheek ache!! I’ll need a hip replacement before I’m 50.

An external fixator on the femur is painful to put up with. The plate and screws was much better

I don’t know but I have a 56 yo friend who had double hip replacement surgery about 4-5 years ago and now he’s practice riding at local motocross tracks two or three times a week....doing doubles and tables and riding better than ever...and pain free.

Ouch!! I broke both my left and right femurs a few years apart. One was external fixator, the other was plate and screws. Much further down on the bone (closer to the knee). Heal up fast!

That’s a proximal femoral fracture. I did the same thing to my humerus. The shoulder and hip joints are both “ball and socket” joints. You busted the ball. The difficult part is whether any damage was done to the socket (aka acetabulum). Both joints have a labrum that, if torn, can cause a lot of discomfort down the road. The hip is weight bearing. Take your doctors and physical therapists direction on when to bear weight and how to recover. If the recovery is anything like a proximal humerus fracture, it will not be pleasant.

I actually hope they don’t put an e start on the rmz450. It’s a differentiator and all of the bikes have e start. There’s a handful of guys who don’t want to play with battery tenders and have their bikes not start at the track.

pre-load is mainly for chassis balance. Not for adjusting stiffness. Much the same as the rear shock.