Broken Calcanius

[Riggernut]

Has anyone here suffered a calcanius(heel) fracture? What long term mobility issues have you had since the fracture? Would you feel confident doing a bleep test for example where the foot turns sharply whilst running/turning?
Cheers

[996 sps]

Cheeky injury that, how did you do it?

[The_Doc]

impossible to say without mechanism of injury, and classification of your Calcaneus fracture (Tongue type, extra-articular, Sander's class.)

ask these questions at your Fracture Clinic appointment.

sorry

[Riggernut]

996 sps said:

Cheeky injury that, how did you do it?

Slid down the road at 40mph and clobbered a concrete post.

[Riggernut]

The_Doc said:

impossible to say without mechanism of injury, and classification of your Calcaneus fracture (Tongue type, extra-articular, Sander's class.)

ask these questions at your Fracture Clinic appointment.

sorry

Will ask the doc on his rounds. To be honest they aren't forthcoming with the info. Had surgery yesterday guess they will have a better idea now.

[Bill]

As the Doc says it depends entirely on the break and repair so ask the people who have seen you. FWIW though I broke my calcaneus and a couple of other bones about 18 years ago and while it ached for a couple of years on and off I wouldn't know about it now.

[996 sps]

Riggernut said:

996 sps said:

Cheeky injury that, how did you do it?

Slid down the road at 40mph and clobbered a concrete post.

Cheeky, normally always high impact.

[Bill]

When you're sat on your arse I suspect 40mph is quite high enough

[Riggernut]

Just glad I wasn't 180 degrees out. Sanders 2A is the classification.

[Riggernut]

Well on the road to recovery, the docs have said I can put weight on which I've been doing the last couple of days. How much do I push it? Last week I started to try and walk normally with a trainer on crutches but started getting pains in the heal and up the back of the calf, so stopped pretty sharpish.

Had a couple of days rest but apprehensive to start again or how hard I should push. No pain no gain? or slowly slowly catchy monkey? Physio next week.

[MGZRod]

Cant be of any help but hope it gets better soon, sounds like a right akward injury.

[Riggernut]

MGZRod said:

Cant be of any help but hope it gets better soon, sounds like a right akward injury.

Cheers, really looking forward to ditching these crutches now.

Edited by Riggernut on Tuesday 27th July 00:41

[Bill]

Riggernut said:

slowly slowly catchy monkey?

This, until the physio's looked at it. It sounds like your calf has tighten with inactivity so some nice steady stretches are probably in order.

[Riggernut]

Yeah, I though as much. perhaps just pushed it a bit to quickly, need to be off these crutches by the end of Aug.