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Any luck with the physio? As a fellow femur-breaker I know some of the issues. One thing that's happened to me is my posture on the bike which I think changes over the course of the ride (I'm favouring one side over the other). I don't have any niggles as of yet, but I thought it might be of interest. I'm not convinced that my leg flexibility / strength will ever be the same as it was* and I think it will continue to change on me and I'll have to adapt as I get older.
TL;DR I think you should get the frame built and then make adjustments with finishing kit to cope with your legs as time goes along. There will be no 'settled state' with our legs, we'll just cope as we get older.
*however I'm faster than I ever was really and am racing CX this weekend. It's not a bar to cycling but it's a "thing"
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Went to see Nichola Roberts, as suggested by JB... she's seems to know what she's doing.
I have three main issues; strength, flexibility, and leg length discrepancy...I'm doing squats and bridges etc to strengthen my bad leg. Atm my 'good' leg is overcompensating, which has led to knee pain. The weakness also means my legs are tracking oddly, which is (possibly) causing itb issues and exacerbating the knee pain.
I'm doing stretches to get more flexibility... I've never been flexible anyway, but atm the moment the muscles in my bad leg are particularly tight, which doesn't help with tracking or itb problems.
And I now have shims to help with the leg length thing. So saddle height is simpler... obviously with one leg shorter than the other, you're either too high on one side, or too low on the other, which means more knee and itb issues, more bad tracking, and hips that wobble all over the place. The shims have made my hips a lot more stable.
I haven't done a proper ride in about 8 weeks and the knee issues haven't completely disappeared, so I probably need to sort out my walking shoes as well.
I'd basically like to be able to push myself properly again without risking more injury. I'm 41 so it won't be easy, but I'm starting to see modest results already which is encouraging : )
.gaz.
And in other news, I've given myself a knee injury which has been a set-back in terms of finalising the fit.
I've had numerous bike (and saddle) fitting sessions for this, and none of them have been 100% correct for my bad leg (I broke my femur in Dec 2018). Every time I think I've nailed it, the niggles start creeping back and I have to re-book and try again.
I was doing some trial-and-error adjustments of my own (and felt like I was actually getting somewhere) but it all went wrong (obvs).... so still no numbers, therefore still no frame.
Matthew is keen for me to sort this out as some of his other projects are starting to get delayed by supply-chain issues, and I already have my groupset etc.
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Does anyone know a good physiotherapist bike-fitter? Basically I need a full analysis of which muscle groups still need working on, and some exercises to build them back up.
Any leads much appreciated!