I am 17.5 weeks (aka 4 months) after my ankle wreckage from a mountain bike crash. I'm already experiencing setbacks. In this entire time frame, there was only week (week 13) where I was able to walk 1 mile distances. That quickly escalated the pain and and the plantar fasciits that I stopped any extra walking and went back to biking. Biking also had its limits and I felt like I was constantly irritating things further every weekend, despite finding rides that would be mostly downhill. All the while we continued my ankle PT and overall strength training work.
The daily pain I had was becoming very crippling for me, enough for my PT and I to remove all ankle related things in the attempt to see how far we can settle things before resuming. Kind of like a slingshot effect. So we have removed ankle exercises, removed walking, removed biking and I'm trying to keep my step counts as low as possible. A 3500 step day is pretty hard to keep, but trying to stay in the 4500-5500 range. I feel like the ankle is always "nauseated" in the hindfoot. I have a perceived instability feeling, so a functional instability feeling (versus mechanical instability - it hasn't ever rolled on me again). So far a week of cutting things out, and I don't feel improvement or settling. However, I did stand a lot this weekend. The swelling is always there, it's never gone away. I am hoping I'm not in the chronic instability realm which requires surgery. They usually don't diagnose that until 12 months out from injury and extensive therapy has been tried. The plantar fasciopathy is at an all-time high. The two feed each other in the worst way. I'm sure they are related. I plan to see the orthopedic surgeon next week just to update him on how things are going and if this is OK. Perhaps they will order another MRI to see how the various things are healing (bone bruise, fracture, ligaments, sinus tarsi, etc).
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AuthorA 45 year old active female who tore her ACL in January 2017 (at the age of 40). Reconstructive surgery in February 2017 with bone-patellar tendon-bone autograft. Archives
November 2022
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