October 5, 2008
Week 17, “how long are you going to be limping?”
Posted by tfs104 under UncategorizedI hate this question! It’s like my limping is offensive to people! Believe me, I would stop if I could! Anyway, enough hateration.
Everything is going well. The ankle isn’t as stiff as it was a few weeks back. Strength is returning to the calf. I only have a little piece of scab left on the scar. I feel like there is quite a bit of adhesion in there because the skin bunches up at the bottom of the incision when I pull my toes up. Hopefully it will let loose one of these days.
On rehab, what is your toe raise exercise frequency? My protocol says twice a day, every day, but I can’t help thinking of this as a regular muscle building routine where you give the muscle 48hrs to recover before working it again? I’ve gone to the every other day frequency for official workouts. I figure just walking on it at work is like a long low resistance workout. Here’s the picture from today. It’s getting better, but slowly.
October 6th, 2008 at 12:11 am
Are you limping because of muscle weakness or lack of ankle flexibility? I started off limping due to lack of strength but now it’s more or less gone - the lack of ankle flexibility causes me to limp when I go down stairs. I practice toe raises all the time, even when I’m sitting in a chair. I stop when it gets sore and resume a few hours later. I found walking to be too low resistance to build my calf sufficiently but I’m at 13 weeks.