Originally Posted by
McNamara
I fall into the category of people who will probably benefit from dual sided PMs, as I shattered my tibia a little over a year ago and am still rebuilding the strength in that leg (one quad is still visibly larger than the other). I'm curious to see what my L/R balance will be when I get a power meter, and even more curious to see if I can even it out over time. I'm leaning towards Favero Assioma PRO MX based on the reviews I've read.
A decade or so ago I had a bad episode of sciatica that resulted in numbness and loss of control in my right foot: my foot flopped when I walked, I had to climb stairs with my left leg and then drag my right leg up to clear the step. I didn't have pedal power meters, I had a hub-based PM that measures total combined power. The drop in power was stark, and I didn't need a separate sided power meter to tell me that. Over the course of the next six or seven months, I slowly regained control of my foot and, as I did, total combined power edged back up. I'm not sure how having separable right/left data would have changed my rehab: it would have told me how much imbalance there was, but I already knew how much (combined) loss there was. I don't think the actual L/R balance would have been actionable.