October 5, 2008
I 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.