Any ideas...

tools: get a thera band: http://www.thera-band.com/. and build a wobble board

tools: get a thera band: http://www.thera-band.com/. and build a wobble board

i have both already... i am not a physio geek i promise....

Still shit though. I hate surgery. Trying to avoid the need for a tendon transfer on my ankle because of nerve damage caused in the original break. Invasive and 3 months in a cast while the tendons knit. That would friggin suck.

that would be s**t! i hope you manage to not need it. due to the muscle graft, i never had a cast. can imagine how frickin annoying it must be though.

yes, i lost most of my inner calf muscle and across the front of the tibia, so they took a muscle from my back (latissimus dorsi) and spent 10 hours sewing blood vessels and veins together. then they stapled round the edges. then skin grafted onto it 3 weeks later. amazing what they can do! if that had failed it would have been amputation. also amazing what the body will accept!

thank you all for your advice, i really appreciate it and will definitely take it! I eat very healthily anyway and am very aware of what I eat, so it shouldn't be too hard. And I know what a difference it makes.

I had something similar happen to my right lower leg as well, due to crush injuries, amazingly though the bone wasn't fractured, but I developed compartment syndrome and they had to cut through (and cut away) some of the muscle at the front of the tibia and inside my calf, still gives me horrible pain to this day now and again (and the incident happened nearly 6 years ago).
I console myself with the fact that i'd rather be in excruciating pain once in a while than have lost half my leg, although I do have a delightful frankenstein skin graft on the front of my leg thanks to the really heavy scar tissue build up underneath, just remember to keep stretching all the time, every single day, and massage it as well, all of this will also help a lot.....and if all else fails, HTFU ;)

Wow, you weren't fucking about when you did that were you. I've only got a couple of bolts in my ankle and an inch long scar. They left my foot to sort itself out, and about 4 or 5 years later it had.

I had something similar happen to my right lower leg as well, due to crush injuries, amazingly though the bone wasn't fractured, but I developed compartment syndrome and they had to cut through (and cut away) some of the muscle at the front of the tibia and inside my calf, still gives me horrible pain to this day now and again (and the incident happened nearly 6 years ago).
I console myself with the fact that i'd rather be in excruciating pain once in a while than have lost half my leg, although I do have a delightful frankenstein skin graft on the front of my leg thanks to the really heavy scar tissue build up underneath, just remember to keep stretching all the time, every single day, and massage it as well, all of this will also help a lot.....and if all else fails, HTFU ;)

yep, my scar isn't pretty either! we can compare if you are at south drinks on monday... although they have done pretty well with the shape - it looks good at the top, it's just a bit thick at the bottom - but my ankle will always be fat anyway due to all the soft tissue damage it sustained around the joint (basically screwed every tendon and ligament).

Yeah i'll see you down at South's, i've got lots of scars lol, my one with the skin graft is raised out of the muscle a bit, if that makes sense, because there is really heavy scarring/scar tissue in the muscle underneath thats kinda made the muscle bigger than it should be, not sure if that makes sense? It pretty much covers most of my shin on that leg.
Would tell you the whole story but its a bit long winded to put it all up on here again, and i'm sure enough peeps here have heard it a few times already lol ;)

Yeah i'll see you down at South's, i've got lots of scars lol, my one with the skin graft is raised out of the muscle a bit, if that makes sense, because there is really heavy scarring/scar tissue in the muscle underneath thats kinda made the muscle bigger than it should be, not sure if that makes sense? It pretty much covers most of my shin on that leg.
Would tell you the whole story but its a bit long winded to put it all up on here again, and i'm sure enough peeps here have heard it a few times already lol ;)
Lets have a link then, im enjoying theses stories :D Heal up soon Jemjah

I thing swimming can increase your power.

do you reckon i can swim with one of those waterproof leg covers on?!?!? could be quite funny! especially if it is full of air...

Wow, hope you feel better soon.

And yes you can swim with leg cover full of air, I did it about 15 years ago when I broke my ankle...

jemjam take it easy friend,i had screwholes in my left femur close to my hipjoint due to surgical plates being removed and six weeks after the op i was playing 5 aside football and it broke across one of the screwholes they couldnt plate it again so 3 months traction in hospital.nurses were great but the food was shit

damn!

my nurses were amazing too. unserpaid, overworked and underappreciated but always cheerful... and how the hell are people supposed to heal on that food? seriously?!?!?

so, had the op and it doesn't hurt much (although my foot has gone a lovely shade of green and once more my ankle is like a tree trunk), which makes it even harder to do nothing... there are only so many episodes of The Wire that i can watch in one sitting...

I've been waaayyyyyy trumped in this thread by a factor of several orders. No major breaks, mostly cracks, few scars here and there, mostly didn't need, or didn't get stitches. That's it. You guys have real injuries.

jemjah... How did you actually DO it?

why are you not having proper physio?
armchair and internet experts are no substitute for being properly assessed by a qualified physiotherapist. they will tailor a program to your needs and your injury, not "i had a mate who had something similar and he did this and now he's o.k."

i've got a great physio, but am not seeing her til the stitches are out. Just wanted to see if people had any other good ideas from thier own experience.

ps. if i had stayed with my NHS physio, i don't think i would be walking properly yet. seriously. unbelievably bad.

I've been waaayyyyyy trumped in this thread by a factor of several orders. No major breaks, mostly cracks, few scars here and there, mostly didn't need, or didn't get stitches. That's it. You guys have real injuries.

jemjah... How did you actually DO it?

left turning lorry.... dragged under front wheel for 30yards until it stopped (on me). amazingly i only broke my leg (and grated a cm off my pelvic bones), but have ALOT of scars all down my front...