It has been a pretty uneventful couple of weeks. I don’t even think about FWB walking anymore. Stairs and distance are no problem. I was a little nervous about removing the first of the two heel lifts. It turned out to be a non-issue. There was a little soreness in [...]
I played around with shifting my weight onto my new boot last night and was surprised that I could easily stand on the affected leg once I was able to override the fear and doubt in my head. I practiced rolling heel to toe with one crutch this morning and found myself walking FWB [...]
My first post-op follow up was 10 days after surgery. Everything looked to be progressing fine. I already had quite a bit of atrophy. Range of motion was still pretty good. The splint had loosened up since my swelling had gone down. I was able to do mini active ROM exercises [...]
The day after my injury and self-diagnosed ATR, I contacted everyone that I could think of that would be able to provide a reference to a good OS. A called a handful of suggested surgeons and had no luck getting anyone to see me until the following week.
I thought it might be faster to [...]
My Achilles rupture was a result of minor rock climbing fall, similar to those I have experienced hundreds of times before. The difference this time was that I swung into the slightly overhanging rock wall (caught by the rope) more quickly than expected and hit the wall first with my right foot. There [...]
