
Originally Posted by
Candice
Im a 22 year old female and i fractured my tibial plateau and tore my meniscus tendon beyond repair. i have 2 steel plates and 10 screws. my surgeon said that my knee injury was the worst he had ever seen in all of his years in medicine. when i injured my knee i thought that i was fine, at first i felt no pain until after my surgeries of which i had 2! i never got to see my x-rays, my doctor said that normally the skin would break with an injury so great causing the bone to be exposed outside of the skin, but mine didnt it actually came back up in my leg. i have been doing pt for a month now and i cant straighten my leg out all the way. is there any way to stretch so i can straighten my leg out all the way? as far as flexing goes im sitting at a 70 degree angle as of now and my therapist is going to start weight bearing of up to 30 lbs. and not expected to start walking until mid january.
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