One more ortho visit
Monday will be 12 weeks and I have in two shoes since ~ 10 weeks, sometimes going back to the cast for long days and crowded events, like football tailgating 
cant believe how good it feels. i have a limp unless i really focus on walking “correctly” and calf size is already coming back
biggest thing now is trust: trust that i can lift my heel off the ground.
100% sold on non-operative, so spread the work
on October 22nd, 2010 at 1:18 pm
Great to hear success stories, hope that will be me by Christmas
on October 22nd, 2010 at 3:37 pm
So, you tried on your ski boots yet? You planning to start teaching when the season opens or wait a while?
Have someone watch you walk from the back and side and have them focus on whether your left heel is off the ground before your right heel strikes. If it isn’t, try this when you’re walking around. Each time you step forward with your right leg, push up onto the toes of of your left foot. I did this for a couple of days after my PT noticed it and that was all it took. You’ll look pretty funny walking but it makes a big difference.
on October 23rd, 2010 at 1:02 am
Great news, Brad, keep going! Do Gerry’s exaggerated “push-off”, but don’t OVERdo them. You’re approaching the stage where re-rupturing becomes extremely rare, but getting pains and setbacks from overuse, “not so much”! In my case, pushing hard until I felt the pain was too much too soon, so build things up gradually.
There’s a little out-of-sync between your story and your ATR timeline, since most of us measure everything from immobilization or surgery. Are you starting your story timeline from the ATR itself, rather than from when you were immobilized, or what?
on October 25th, 2010 at 12:22 pm
Hi Gerry - no ski boots yet. might be a tight fit along just above the heel bone. I have tried to get that left (affected) heel off the ground. For me, I tried to just delay a bit longer the right foot coming off the ground. Definitely helps
To be honest, I did a 30 second limp/jog this weekend, so things are coming along very very nicely. But need to eliminate the limp to get the calf strength
Our hill tends to open last week of Nov / first week Dec, so I plan to be ready to go!
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Hi Norm,
thanks for the concerns and the cautions. So far I have not overdone anything if pain and soreness the next day is the metric.
As for timeline, I am using time of injury as the starting point, for several reasons:
I was in an air-cast with two wedges before getting my fiberglass cast at 20 degrees (at one week post injury)
After three weeks with the cast, I went back to the air cast, two wedges (albeit much more weight bearing).
So I figure the first week in the aircast was pretty much doing the same thing as the three weeks in the fiberglass cast.
I have an appt in one hour so will update after that
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