Originally Posted by
iTrek
Thanks for all the replies, Deb got her boot. She is feeling much more mobile. They are telling us that she is another 7-9 weeks from being able to put weight on ankle. Question for those of you who've been through something similar, How long after being able to put weight on before you were able to get on bike on a trainer? Or did you go straight to riding?
I bought a kirk kinetic trainer and got on it about 2 months after the ankle break. I had to climb up on it with crutches. I should have done it sooner.
Everyone (doc, PT, wife, random people) told me I should be putting weight on my ankle way before I was able to do it. Bone is completely healed in six weeks, and in Europe people with internal fixations like mine were doing weight-bearing physical therapy a week after surgery. In liability-conscious America, the advice tends to be much more cautious. In retrospect, my inherent paranoia compounded this problem and slowed my recovery.