Comminuted fracture of the heel How long does it take to walk with a steel plate removed?

Hello, after taking the steel plate, it takes 13 to 14 days to remove the stitches, and you can walk after removing the stitches. It generally takes 4 to 6 weeks to heal the nail holes left on the bones after the steel plate is removed, during which time it is necessary to pay attention to protecting the affected limb, avoiding strenuous exercise, and preventing secondary injury.

After comminuted calcaneus fracture surgery, it takes 3 months to be able to stand and walk normally. Calcaneal fractures often require surgical open reduction and internal fixation, and generally calcaneal fractures take 6 weeks to achieve initial healing, at this time, patients can carry out non-weight-bearing functional training, including joint exercises, toe joint activities, knee joints including ankle joint exercises, these are all possible, but the premise is not weight-bearing. It takes 3 months for the calcaneus to heal firmly, and after 3 months of healing, you can perform weight-bearing training, that is, you can walk on the ground.

If you walk down the ground too early, the calcaneus will collapse, and the height will become shorter after healing, which will often lead to traumatic arthritis, and there will be adverse symptoms such as walking pain and standing pain in the later stage.

If you take the steel plate, the good recovery is good, about a month, but a month, not immediately walk, can only say that you can walk a little, and then you still need to exercise, about three or four months before it will slowly normalize, but in the future, you must pay attention to walking, don't get injured.

Generally, if the steel plate is removed after the calcaneus fracture, it is recommended that it is safer to walk on crutches within one month, and give up crutches after at least three weeks.

How long does it take to walk with a heel, comminuted fracture, a steel plate? If it's just when you take the steel plate, this doctor will tell you.

First of all, it depends on how you are recovering. If it's good. Or at least take a ** photo for a few months. Follow the doctor's instructions to walk.

After the plate is removed, the surgical wound is healed and you can go.

It's not that you can't walk now, it's that the muscles and tendons haven't recovered.

After fracture surgery, due to external fixation**, local muscles and tendons slowly atrophy due to long-term inactivity, and when you go to external fixation, those muscles and tendons have lost their original function due to atrophy, and what you need to do now is to restore the function of those muscles and tendons through appropriate exercise.

Exercise method: If you feel that you can't walk yet, first exercise the function of the knee joint and the function of the ankle joint, that is, extend and flex the knee joint and the ankle joint, and take a break when you are tired and continue to do it. Do this for about a few days and then slowly walk the exercise.

It may be painful at first, but you must persevere, and how much limb function can recover after a fracture depends on how well you exercise.

Why don't you ask the doctor who took you out?

Why didn't the doctor tell you?

I feel like I can walk and go...

For fractures of the upper limbs, you can generally get out of bed and walk 1 to 2 days after surgery, and there will be no obvious impact on local wounds.

For patients with lumbar vertebra fractures, if the steel plate is removed after surgery, it is generally 3 to 5 days to gradually stand and walk under the fixation of the waist circumference, and at the same time, care should be taken to avoid excessive twisting, otherwise it may lead to the rupture of the lumbar incision.

For lower limb fractures, generally speaking, a week or so after surgery, you can gradually stand and walk with the assistance of crutches to avoid excess, and at the same time, you should rest more.

It is necessary to elevate the affected limb and avoid excessive sagging, which can effectively reduce the local pain and swelling sensation, and at the same time keep the incision clean and dry, avoid water, and prevent trauma. About a week after the operation, the incision pain is more obvious, and the soft tissue injury is not completely obtained**, so it is necessary to pay attention to bed rest and avoid moving on the ground. After a week, the incision pain will gradually subside, and if the pain is tolerable, you will be able to walk on crutches and half-weight.

In about 2 to 3 weeks, if the incipient is free of signs of infection and has healed completely, and the re-x-ray shows that the fracture line has completely disappeared, you can walk normally with weight.

After the heel plate is removed, it is best to be able to recuperate for a few more days, about a month or so before you can walk?

After the fracture has healed and the fracture is taken after the internal fixation and removal surgery such as steel plate screws, ask how long it will take to walk and bear weight after the surgery, and usually, after the internal fixation and removal of the foot or lower limb, it is necessary to recuperate for 1 to 2 months before you can fully bear weight and walk.

Because the feet and lower limbs of the human body are weight-bearing limbs, after the fracture internal fixation and removal surgery, the local bone is relatively weak, if you walk on the ground too early or bear weight and strenuous exercise, it is easy to cause the fracture site to re-fracture, so after the operation, it is necessary to carry out the weight-bearing time after the operation according to the specific opinion and plan of the surgeon.

After the operation, you can first walk with crutches and part of the lower limbs, go to the hospital for regular follow-up examinations, and after the fracture is completely healed, carry out daily activities under the guidance of the doctor, after the fracture on the foot heals and take the steel plate, you can walk on the ground after the incision is healed, but you can only walk on the ground when you need to use crutches at the beginning, and at the same time avoid standing for a long time, squatting, jumping and heavy physical labor. After more than three months, you can consider walking completely off crutches. However, it is better to determine when you can start working with weights, and it is better to review the X-ray.

Hello, generally speaking, the steel plate can be walked at that time after it is removed, but it is okay not to walk excessively and not to over-load it. If it is safe, it is better to carry local protective weight for three months, which is better, and through these three months, the strength of the nail hole and the fracture site will be further strengthened, so it is better to return to normal walking after three months.

The steel plate on the foot is restored to be able to walk for about half a year.

Coincidentally, my wife only took out the steel plate last year, and it was a comminuted fracture of the heel, and the steel plate was beaten for a year.

The two most important aspects of calcaneal fracture surgery: recovery of the subtalar articular surface; Recovery of the posterior arch (Bohler's angle).

Whether you can play a ball and other strenuous sports is like this:

1.After the plate is removed, it takes 3-6 months for the nail path to heal (bone filling and trabecular reshaping), during which it is recommended not to overload weight, otherwise there is a possibility of refracture;

2.If you are satisfied with the reduction of the fracture fragment during the operation, and you feel good after internal fixation, you can consider exercising appropriately. It must be in moderation, because when the calcaneus is fractured, the three articular surfaces of the inferior articular joint are damaged, and the middle articular surface is often turned over and shifted 90-180 degrees, and the possibility of traumatic arthritis 3-5 years after the fracture heals is still greater than that of ordinary people.

Many people with traumatic arthritis ache with every step and have a poor quality of life.

Try to prevent it, there is no good way, don't overdo it.

Wishing you good health!

Problem analysis: In order to promote fracture healing, the diet of fracture patients can be based on the early, middle and late stages of fracture healing, and according to the development of the disease, with different foods to promote hematoma resorption or callus formation. 1. Early (1 2 weeks):

The injured part is swollen and bruised, the meridians are blocked, and the qi and blood are blocked. In principle, the diet is mainly light, such as vegetables, eggs, soy products, fruits, fish soup, lean meat, etc., taboos: avoid sour and spicy, hot and dry, greasy, especially do not eat fatty and nourishing products too early, such as bone broth, fat chicken, stewed fish, etc., otherwise blood stasis and stagnation, difficult to dissipate, will delay the course of the disease, make the callus growth retarded, and affect the recovery of joint function in the future.

2. Mid-term (2 4 weeks): most of the stasis is absorbed, and this stage is mainly based on Heying pain relief, stasis removal, and bone continuation and tendons. In order to meet the needs of callus growth, bone broth, Tianqi claypot chicken, animal liver and other things can be added to the initial diet to supplement more vitamins A, D, calcium and protein.

3. Later stage (more than 5 weeks):

Suggestions: After 5 weeks of injury, the bruise and swelling of the fracture site is basically absorbed, and the callus has begun to grow, which is the late stage of the fracture. The diet can lift the taboo, and the recipe can be accompanied by old hen soup, pork bone soup, mutton bone soup, stewed fish, etc

Although the steel plate currently used is generally made of titanium, it can be carried in the body for life without any changes, and the steel plate itself is not harmful to the body, but it is still recommended that you take the steel plate out! There are three reasons for this:

1. People have to walk every day, their legs will be weight-bearing, the steel plate fixes the bones, and the steel plates and screws have been following the bones with force. Just like machine parts wear out and break over time! Once the steel plate screw is broken, it is not easy to take!

2. When people walk under normal circumstances, the strength should be transmitted through the bones, but if there is an extra steel plate, then the steel plate and the bone must transmit the force, which will reduce the stress of the bones, and the bones under the steel plate will become fragile and osteoporotic after a long time, so that it will become easy to fracture again! Therefore, only by taking out the steel plate and subjecting the bones to normal stress will the bones be kept strong!

3. The steel plate is a foreign body in the body, which is generally compatible with the human body, but in some cases, such as other parts of the human body with infection foci (such as pneumonia, etc.), then the bacteria will spread to the whole body through blood circulation, and the normal body parts are easy to kill the bacteria that have spread, but the part with the steel plate will be due to the existence of the steel plate, which is a local decrease in immunity. And the bacteria that cause the spread are easy to live near the steel plate, causing osteomyelitis in this place!

Addendum: As long as the steel plate does not cause you obvious discomfort, it is perfectly okay not to want to take it!

After the fracture has healed, it is necessary to recuperate for 1 to 2 months before you can fully bear weight and walk after the surgery.

Because the feet and lower limbs of the human body are weight-bearing limbs, after the fracture internal fixation and removal surgery, the local bone is relatively weak, if you walk on the ground too early or bear weight and strenuous exercise, it is easy to cause the fracture site to re-fracture, so after the operation, it is necessary to carry out the weight-bearing time after the operation according to the specific opinion and plan of the surgeon.

After the operation, you can walk with partial weight on your lower limbs with crutches, go to the hospital for regular follow-up examinations, and after the fracture is completely healed, you can carry out daily activities under the guidance of the doctor.