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Will leg ever be the same?
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Yea so i snapped my Tibia clean, and its been a month now and lookin at like two more till i can run
but i was talkin to my science teacher and he said the leg wont fully heal for like 15 years, then the calouse and everything go away.
but just wondering if this happened to anybody, were they able to come back next year or did it like hurt landing hard or awkward
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it happened to me about 9 years ago. i can still ski but the bad thing is that my doctor said i cant do any jumps that are 300 ft or bigger. yea its sad and really sucks
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shit 300footers are my favorite
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yea just ask your doctor the next time you see him, if you do. i dont think anyone on here knows about this anyway
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I live in a family of doctors and medical professors, had the same question, and your bone should be back to normal in a year or less.
After a few weeks your bone will hurt because it's thicker and it's not normal, but the pain is not a bad thing, your bone is stronger not weaker than before and it will not break again. If the pain is bothering you, it's absolutely not problem for you to take painkillers and get on with it.
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i broke my tibia as well as rupturing my pateller tendon last summer at high north. currently i have three pins in it:two front to back one side to side.
i have not been delayed in coming back to skiing, and i actually have gotten a lot better this season. It feels awkward when i sit in a tight space (a backseat of a car for example), but other than that i can do whatever i want.
i wouldnt worry about it
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it will never be the same
it will be stronger
it will be faster
it will be better than ever before!
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how the fuck did you manage that?
the idea of snapping my tibia makes my legs weak.
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your science teacher is right about it taking that long for the callase to go away, but that really doesnt effect how strong your bone is. It will heal just as strong as it was before, you will just have a big mass of bone around the fracture site. Your body naturally makes more bone than it it needs when its healing a fracture. This is not a big deal and won't affect your skiing. however, if your fracture was compound, and maybe if it wasnt, you probably did some serious damage to the soft tissue around your bone (muscle, tendons, cartilage and that stuff. That stuff can take longer to heal and it doesnt heal nearly as effectively, so you might have some complications with that, hopefully not though.
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