About 3 months ago I had a car accident where I broke my left femur. They placed two screws near my knee and one at my hip, but now they than discovered that the two screws near the knee had broke, causing intense pain. So, they removed them. I was doing great the whole time, after the first surgery, but now I have to deal with it again. I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions on anything i can take to regain the muscle mass and strength. Any special exercises that could work?
While you are still healing after broken femur surgery, the best you can do to regain strength in your muscles is physical therapy. Muscles are usually injured in a femur fracture, and your hip and knee become stiff due to the injury and surgery. Complete recovery may take many months, depending on how bad the fracture was and requires the muscles and joints to heal as well. Your physical therapist will assess the recovery of your muscles and joints by measuring joint mobility and the return of muscle strength, flexibility, and coordination.
Any one with advice on this or dealing with the situation?
Very discouraged!!!
I recently broke my femur in a bike accident . t happened april 26th, 2011 the day of my best friends birthday. It was after school, i was goiing to a HUGE hill and lost control. The bike started to swivel and was going to fast because i wasnt the right weight for the height ( i was to skinny :p). It was my first time i ever got surgery. Im still in the cast but i am getting out in 6 days on june 6th :D exactly 6 weeks from the 26 th of april. U can do exercises such as push-ups, sit- ups, crunches, walking, jogging, jogging lightly thru sand, walking thru water, wieght lifting, and swimming. (ect.)
Posted: May 31st,2011. Time: 12:53 pm
i got hit by a truck and broke my femur in half and i always wondered why my knee killed and not my thigh. In the end i just listenend to the doc and let time take its course now there is no pain anywhere, hang in their buddy!
I had a tumor removed from my left femur neck, bone graft and fixed with long screw and plate. The most pain I had was around the knee, which had never given me pain. My physical therapist has identified the tib-fib ligament as the problem and is working on that--if you have knee pain, please make sure someone helps you with this. Drs. don't mention this as a possibility and it has een the biggest hindrance to walking normally.
I had a spontaneous femur break after a hip replacement. Now my knee hurts. Doctor says it is from the plate he put in to fix the femur. I read your post and looked it up. I think I may have Iliotibial Band Syndrome (ITBS) which may be what you meant. The Tib Fib ligament is in the ankle.