$pilon fracture recovery blog$

$pilon fracture recovery blog$

#Pilon fracture recovery blog skin

There are several factors in all of this. I am in my recovery period from hardware removal and I have had tightness, ankle swelling after walking, and some sharp pains related to the swelling, and my ankle would sometimes collapse under me with a sharp pain when I took a step particularly when I was fatigued, and I wouldn't be able to walk unless I held my ankle like it was fixed in a cast. The surgeon didn't connect this with my hardware, although I did, and since the hardware was removed, I have not had the hives at all. About 6 months after the injury, I developed chronic hives and had to stay on antihistamines all the time or I would have large patches of hives on my body anywhere, and it was worst where my clothing was tighter such as where elastic made contact.

#Pilon fracture recovery blog skin

Sometimes it throbbed a bit, and the skin over the plates was starting to develop some pigment. I had pain all the time (like I was getting kicked in the ankle) from the titanium plates and the skin would be warm to the touch. My fracture happened 2 years ago with surgery and internal hardware fixation done at Mayo. I wanted to offer some experience about removal of surgical hardware after an ankle fracture. I had so much to tell you, that there will be a second post following this one.

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ĭo you have an appointment with the surgeon setup yet to discussion your Don, along with my fellow mentor, John, I welcome you to Connect. If you haven't done this before, you might find this site helpful for formulating questions –. I've found that it is really helpful for me to put together a list of questions I have and take them to my appointment with me so I don't forget to ask.

$pilon fracture recovery blog$

I think you have some very good questions to ask the surgeon. Here's some information I found on the topic that may be helpful - Removing Pins and Other Implants After Surgery:

$pilon fracture recovery blog$

I think it is a great discussion to have with your surgeon and learn what they feel may be the associated risks and benefits. At one point she asked the surgeon about removing the hardware from her ankle but since she wasn't having any problems the surgeon suggested leaving it in because there is always risk with any surgery and a possibility to make things worse. My wife has a plate and screws in her ankle and wrist from two different falls. Certain social, demographic, and treatment variables seem to contribute to these poor outcomes.Hi Welcome to Connect. Multivariate analyses revealed that presence of two or more comorbidities, being married, having an annual personal income of less than 25,000 US dollars, not having attained a high-school diploma, and having been treated with external fixation with or without limited internal fixation were significantly related to poorer results as reflected by at least two of the five primary outcome measures.Īt more than three years after the injury, pilon fractures can have persistent and devastating consequences on patients' health and well-being. Of sixty-five participants who had been employed before the injury, twenty-eight (43%) were not employed at the time of follow-up nineteen (68%) of the twenty-eight reported that the pilon fracture prevented them from working. Thirty-five percent of the patients reported substantial ankle stiffness 29%, persistent swelling and 33%, ongoing pain. General health, as measured with the Short Form-36 (SF-36), was significantly poorer than age and gender-matched norms. A secondary outcome measure was employment status.Įighty (78%) of 103 eligible patients were evaluated at a mean of 3.2 years after injury. The primary outcomes that were measured included general health, walking ability, limitation of range of motion, pain, and stair-climbing ability. Study participants returned to the initial treatment centers for a comprehensive evaluation of their health status. Patient, injury, and treatment characteristics were recorded from patient interviews and medical record abstraction. Our purpose was to assess midterm health, function, and impairment after pilon fractures and to examine patient, injury, and treatment characteristics that influence outcome.Ī retrospective cohort analysis of pilon fractures treated at two centers between 19 was conducted. Although a number of investigators have documented clinical outcomes and complications associated with tibial plafond, or pilon, fractures, very few have examined functional and general health outcomes associated with these fractures.

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