{"id":151,"date":"2018-02-14T16:46:57","date_gmt":"2018-02-14T23:46:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.expatbrit.org\/blog\/?p=151"},"modified":"2024-06-30T11:54:54","modified_gmt":"2024-06-30T17:54:54","slug":"pelvis-hip-recovery-aka-the-story-of-76-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.expatbrit.org\/blog\/?p=151","title":{"rendered":"Pelvis\/Hip Recovery — aka the story of 76 days"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve spent a lot more time here talking about the recovery from a voice\/throat\/face perspective and rather less about the hip and pelvis. This is — honestly — mostly because the latter have been in a holding pattern for a while; my PT has been adding effort and exercises gradually, there’s only been so much that could be done until there was some measure of weight bearing. There was a lot that was done, especially towards the end in terms of strengthening the hip abductors to help reduce the incidence of Trendelenberg gait<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The surgery on the hip (an open reduction internal fixation<\/a>, or ORIF) procedure was on Dec 5th, 7 days after I was hit. They plated the column fracture of the acetabular, put 43 staples in the wound, and then it was non-weightbearing for 10 weeks.<\/p>\n

The internal hardware was fairly impressive on X-ray:<\/p>\n

Internal fixation hardware<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Yesterday, 76 days after the accident, we had the second followup with my orthopaedic surgeon. Joint spacing looked good, healing looked good and after those 76 days I was turned loose with weight bearing as tolerated (WBAT). I proceeded to walk (sort of) out of his office without the crutches, though my gait is still odd, my leg is still incredibly weak. However — thanks to my PT, and actually DOING my PT — I could walk. (Though my calf is so incredibly right it is not even remotely funny)<\/p>\n

Now to the doctors orders: wean off assistance (even on day 2 I’m not using the crutches around the house), correct gait (a work on progress), and strengthen the leg. On to another 12 weeks of PT, though I now have planks, bridges, one-legged stands, and\u00a0 even shallow squats on the list of things to do.<\/p>\n

Progress!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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