Originally Posted by KevinTX
Alright so 2 weeks ago i under went my last sugery (6 total) from a accident back in march that broke both my legs. Naturally being in a wheelchair for 7 months and having alot of my muscle cut away resulted in some pretty scrawny legs. I have a home gym (
http://www.precor.com/cons/en/strs/325/ and it has some a leg press and other exercises to do. My knees still have pain in them so lifting alot of weight is pretty tuff and becomes impossible quik. I do squats with a medicine ball also. I have been working my legs out for about a month now and i still see hardly any difference at all in my muscle mass.
Not to lower your expectation, but I know people who have had major injuries who never get back their pre-injury muscle mass. Despite being still quite athletic, this guys Rt leg is so much thinner than his Lt, all result of fractures and knee surgeries many years ago. So it comes back to the nature of injury you've had in the first place and whether there's sufficient capacity to regenerate amongst all the scar tissues and dead motor nerve endings. If you've had a major injury as what sounded like by your description, your first goal really should be functional recovery rather than for shape.