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Location: Anywhere my horses are ! Lost in Texas!!!!! | I was in a accident truck is totaled,broken left leg and broken right arm . If anyone has experienced a broken leg. After the leg is healed what was it liked to start riding again. Thanks |
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Location: on a hill | I ran at worlds with a broken leg. I was at 7 weeks with a fractured tibia. I didn't have a hard cast on. I had a removable cast that I swithched it out for a brace for my runs. Everyone heals differently. I also had cut off some of my pht magnets from my horses blanket and put them inside my cast where my break was. |
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Location: Kansas | I broke both bones in my lower right leg Dec. 1, 2008. I was completely NON-WEIGHT BEARING for either 10 or 11 weeks, then had a second surgery to remove a screw in my ankle right about Valentines Day 2009. My first ride back was right at the end of February and I think I made my first run in either the very end of March or the first of April. My balance was NOT right until late July and the flexibility in my ankle didn't come all the way back until closer to Labor Day. The good thing is that I listened to the doctors, took it easy when I was supposed to, and therefore 8 years later, I have almost entirely normal strength & flexibility in that ankle. I think my breaks would have healed faster but I also destroyed the ligament that runs down the front of your shin to the top of your foot, and ligaments take longer than bones to heal. |
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Location: Arkansas | God bless all of your hearts. . . . . |
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Location: Anywhere my horses are ! Lost in Texas!!!!! | Thank you i am non weight bearing for 10weeks the brake is right above my knee there is a nail from my hip to my knee.. even if I cant barrel race again i will be happy just to get on my horse. |
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Location: Washington | My husband broke fibula and tibia a few years back, he was back in the saddle in two weeks post breaking. He was is a walking boot. Had surgery on it to have a rod put in place. He was also back to driving truck in two months, lucky for him he can drive without a clutch since it was his clutch leg. He was still walking with a cane at that point
Can't say it was easy to get him on and obviously no stirrup for that leg but he was in the saddle which for a busy body helped keep him sane. |
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Location: OH. IO | Imharrypotter - 2017-09-05 1:01 AM
Thank you i am non weight bearing for 10weeks the brake is right above my knee there is a nail from my hip to my knee.. even if I cant barrel race again i will be happy just to get on my horse.
Just want to say im sorry that happened to you but sure happy you are ok!!! |
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  Ms. Marine
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Location: Texas | Wait until your doctor gives you the go ahead.. Riding before then can make the injury worse or complicate the healing process. |
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Am I really the Weirdo?
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Location: Kansas | BarrelRacing4Christ - 2017-09-05 10:02 AM Wait until your doctor gives you the go ahead.. Riding before then can make the injury worse or complicate the healing process.
YES!!!! Stay off it until you're really cleared. You will be rewarded for the patience later. |
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| I broke a femur bone in my leg. I was out for about 6 months. Then I started to ride and I had a hard time hanging on with that leg until the muscles got built up again. Took about 3 months after that to compete again. |
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Location: 100 miles from Nowhere, AR | I broke my tib/fib and mangled my leg pretty badly in 2002. A rod was put in but I had a big gap in the bone where it was shattered that took a year to totally fill in. My leg was purple for several months because the circulation had been drastically damaged.
My dr encouraged me to do as much as I could stand because weight bearing would encourage bone growth. So I was released to ride at 6 weeks, before I was even walking on it. At first I had to climb on a flat bed trailer to mount and couldn't use a stirrup, but after a few weeks I was able to get on from the ground on the "wrong" side. I was back to running barrels in 3 months, I literally wrapped my leg in bubble wrap and wore a shin guard. LOL It took a while to regain strength and flexibility and for it to heal enough not to limp. My knee bothered me for a long time because of the tendons that were cut. But here we are 15 years later and I rarely think about it.
without the rod, it would have been a very different recovery. |
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| Also depends on how old you are, how fast you heal, how bad the break, what type of cast, pain tolerance, etc.
Just before my Senior year in high school a horse fell with me and I ended up with a compound fracture of my tibia (but not the fibula). This was back in the dark ages before pins and rods so they put me in a cast from my toes to my groin. I climbed on a horse within 3 days and when I got the cast "broken in" and soft in the thigh area, I rode bareback every day. Showed at Jr Livestock with it (but did not run barrels).
With my appendectomy last year the surgeon told me 6 weeks but released me a few days short of 3 weeks, to do whatever I wanted. I was already CAREFULLY pushing my limits. Part of it is knowing your body and knowing when and how far to push it. And after all of that, crap can happen. A normally bomb proof horse can dump your butt and break more than your healing leg.
Sorry this happened, be careful and heal well.
Sorry this ha
That was when I was young when I could still bounce when I hit the ground |
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