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sdjeff
11/16/2017 9:06pm
11/16/2017 9:06pm
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11/17/2017 5:40am
6 weeks ago I was at the track and was doing my sight lap and came to the last jump of the lap. It's usually just a small 15-20 ft table for scrubbing. I brain-farted and scrubbed the jump like normal but they added another 10 feet to it. I landed sideways on top, swapped the opposite way off the down side and landed at the bottom. I'm not sure what happened then or how I landed but I ended up having a clean break on my tib and fib. They straightened out the leg the first day and went into surgery the next day to get my tib plated and a nail put through my fib. The doc says I should be able to start walking on it in 6 more weeks (12 weeks total from the surgery). I'm curious what anyone else's recovery time was to get back on the bike. I've been going through a bad break up during this along with Oxy withdrawals, the flu, inability to sleep or eat and I'd pretty much do anything to get back on the bike to clear my head. Obviously I need to be patient but just want to get some kind of timeline in my head. Any other advice welcome too.
Day of:
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6 weeks after surgery(Tuesday):
Day of:
2 weeks after surgery:
6 weeks after surgery(Tuesday):
i have the plate and screws on the outside of my leg and pin on the inside, so opposite from you. Mine healed quicker than expected, my doc released me to ride right when i got out of the walking boot (my doc is a racer and family friend so probably a little more aggressive than most). I was riding in about 10 weeks. Broke it late Oct, riding early Jan.
Youre not going to want to hear this, and i hope yours is better than mine but it took a solid year before i was confident stepping off a curb onto that leg. I'm about 2 years in now and its pretty good, i can do box jumps and land on it, if i go on a run it will be sore the next day still.
Good news is, in a boot it felt fine for the most part! and riding is how i got most my ankle flexibility back. Just had to get over the fear of putting my foot out for a corner or dabbing it and twisting it.
Hope the best for your recovery! Listen to the Dr, not worth the risk of coming back early imo.
The Shop
Had the surgery on a Monday and quit the drugs on Thursday.
Good luck, have a positive attitude and you can recover 100%.
This is from my 59th birthday at Millville this year.
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