Comment by clumsysmurf

Comment by clumsysmurf 3 days ago

It was ~20 years ago, so my memory is a little foggy, but I gave myself a "dancer's fracture" in one foot.

After many months, it was looking like a non-union. The podiatrist was worried any pin would split the broken bone even more. It wasn't looking good.

I had read something along these lines even back then, so with my crazy immobilizer boot on, I head to the gym and started doing light squats several times per week.

Next x-ray: healed.

sethammons 2 days ago

I dropped a few hundred lbs on my foot and got my ballerina's fracture. I like "dancer's" better haha. I went to the gym 4 times a week, every week, even in the boot. Just did mostly sitting exercises. It took 4 or 5 months to start to fuse still. :shrug:

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77pt77 2 days ago

> It took 4 or 5 months to start to fuse
That's an insanely long time-frame for healing.
Bones usually start fusing in weeks, not months.

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clumsysmurf a day ago

> It took 4 or 5 months to start to fuse still
Yeah it was almost half a year for me. My doctor even started prescribing "non-standard" treatments like electrical stimulation, etc, which didn't work.

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TomK32 3 days ago

Those little bones are fragile... I broke the second from the outside last summer, too much running, and then started running again a little bit too soon and the next one broke :-/

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77pt77 2 days ago

But plenty of people here are saying to just force it...

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77pt77 3 days ago

What did the doctors say after it healed?

Did they take credit for it?

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