Dear Sports Rehabilitators, Fitness Trainers, Muscle Experts, Doctors and scarily intelligent sheep dogs,
I broke my femur 3 years ago. I was being a knob on a skateboard. The surgeon put, what looks like, a shelving bracket in my leg which fixed it.
The fracture feels fine but my thigh muscle feels rubbish, almost like all of the muscle is bunched up at the front. I walk with a limp but not a cool one like a man who manages prostitutes. I can't run or hop. I used to like hopping.
I've stretched it a lot, I've focused on it in the gymnasium. I've had a couple of deep tissue massages. No change.
Should I accept this is as good as it gets or are there other things I can do?
I can't say I'd be disappointed if I couldn't run again, I hate running but it is handy sometimes, like when you're being chased by an angry cat or if I'm late for an appointment at the GUM clinic.
Thank you in advance.
Yours Sincerely,
MorgyFace
Dear MorgyFace,
ReplyDeleteAs out of the box as this may seem, have you considered heading back to the old General Practitioner and asking for it to be checked out? It sounds like you've been doing all the right things, and for you to still have a limp and altered sensation, it may well be the case that your surgeon didn't have a strong enough wrist action and a screw may have worked loose...it happens. I suggest going and trying to wangle a scan just to make sure your bracket is in full working order - they can also bend. I'm making them out to be a bit shit, but having worked on a trauma and orthopaedics ward for quite a while, you'd be surprised how often it happens.
If you have already been and the doctor said no, go to another doctor. If you've already had a scan then entirely discount everything I have written and we'll just pretend it never happened.
Deal?
Yours,
DocLovelly