stress fracture femoral head
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jmruns430 posted 2 years ago.
Ouch! A girl I ran xc with in high school managed to do somehting similar to herself and had probably similar surgery and I remember that being her only option to heal correctly after 6 months of not really healing. I seem to remember her main recovery problem being the muscle healing, as they may have to move/tear some of you quad area muscles while doing the surgery (this is true of hip replacements as well). All of your questions are probably very specific to how much of a fracture you have, where it is located and also healing is dependent on you treating it properly, eating well and doing physical therapy as recommended. It will be some amount of time before they will let you in the pool with your surgery entrance site (happened when I broke my wrist and got a pin).
Since you haven't healed in a year, it sounds like you need the surgery, but make a list of your questions, ask your doctor, as the surgeon, and get two or three other opinions from MD's, PTs, etc. Hope the healing goes faster from here on out. Good luck
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bpsgson posted 2 years ago.
To give you some hope read the following about my friend Hillary and her hip which she had surgically repaired after this story (the article says pelvis, but it was her femur).
http://www.bikesportmichigan.com/editorials/0000062.shtml
As for recovery, Hillary has competed in 3 Ironman races this year (2, 3rd place finishes) and plans 2 or 3 more this year ... many hours of rehab seemed to have paid off.
good luck
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rbreddin75 posted 2 years ago.
I haven't had the injury that you do but I have had multiple surgeries on my femur (butterfly break of the femur during a skiing accident in 97) I still have a rod that runs through the middle of it today!
I have not had any discomfort for the last 8 years...
You will be fine although you will lose some flexibility in the hip (which should come back with PT)
Good luck with it...
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Hello,
I was diagnosed with a stress fracture in my femoral head about a year ago through a bone scan. I believe it happened as a result of being a swimmer (very low impact) and ramping up the running/biking (higher impact) within the last 2 years. Since it happened I have just been doing a lot of swimming and biking, which does not hurt it. Was really getting frustrated with it not feeling all better so went back to my ortho...got an MRI...and found out it is not healing and the only real solution is surgery. Has anyone had this type of surgery (screws put through femoral head)? Wondering what the recovery is like and if it is painful? when will I be able to swim/bike? I have not been able to run so thats the least of my concerns. I really want to have the surgery so that the fracture does not lead to worse long-term effects.
thanks,
Katie