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I have been studying up on ankle fusion and replacement, assuming that was where I’d eventually end up, and the downsides of those solutions had me very sad indeed.

$tibial pilon fracture recovery time$

So with this horrible news on my mind I drove home contemplating more surgery and no good thoughts. She said ankle fusion or ankle replacement were her assumptions of my next procedure but that it wold not be her that did the surgery (Dr Herzog is a orthopedic trauma surgeon and the person who fixed me up when I came into the ER on March 6th.) (She is also very awesome) She said my lack of dorsiflexion was from the bone at the front of the tibia hitting the talus, and that wasn’t going to stop happening through more physical therapy. I tried to convince her that I had some good results from PT, and massage, but she ignored me and said it was time I find a ankle specialist who was skilled in post-pilon fracture treatments, and explore my options. While I knew that the likelihood of pilon fracture-related cartilage loss and joint collapse was very high, I was very hopeful that I was going to be one of the luckier patients and get a few years of fun in before I had to deal with arthritis, more surgery, etc. In some cases (those luckier than me) the cartilage survives enough t allow pain-free walking and much normal use of the ankle. This is very typical.” She went on to say that the impact of the initial injury (the talus bone ramming upward and shattering the plafond of the tibia, ripping the cartilage to pieces in the process) leads to cartilage death many months after. With pilon fractures, there can be total cartilage death after 6 months. Her first words were “you’ve lost the joint space, the cartilage is gone. Well… my surgeon walked in the room after I got out of x-ray and didn’t look very excited to see me.

$tibial pilon fracture recovery time$

Tibial pilon fracture recovery time