Ankle Fusion Surgery | Cliff's Story
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- Опубликовано: 20 сен 2015
- As a life-long football coach, it’s essential for Cliff to move around and interact with his players. Severe ankle pain was preventing him from doing so. As luck would have it, he crossed paths with an ex-player of his, John D. Kelly, IV, MD, Director of Sports Shoulder for the Penn Musculoskeletal Center. Dr. Kelly performed ankle fusion to now Cliff is back on the gridiron and doing what he loves.
Ankle arthritis is degeneration of the cartilage that covers the ends of the bones that form the ankle joint. The goal of ankle fusion is to relieve pain and maintain or improve function for a patient with ankle arthritis.
The Penn Musculoskeletal Center is a team of doctors, nurses and physical therapists who take a whole-body approach to diagnosing and treating joints, muscles and bones. These experts work together as a seamless unit to provide a wide range of treatments, not just surgery.
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I had a calcaneal/sub-talar fusion. It’s doing great. I’m 64 and powerlifting now.
I can now leg press 900lbs with my fused ankle (and total knee replacement on the other leg).
Go for it.
BTW I did prehab first before the surgery.
I'm having this surgery Wednesday ty.
Wonderful ending.
Thanks for the inspiring story. I am in horrible pain and think I will just get the fusion. I am missing out on so many activities. It’s a horrible thing and I can’t stand it any longer. I can’t even sleep. My family is sick of hearing about it. They say it’s all I talk about. I told them to put their hand on a hot skillet and have a conversation. Bet the pain would be all they would talk about. Ready to just tell my surgeon to do what he feels is best. That and lots of prayer. Wish me luck.
Good luck , how did you go ?
Oh Brady I do I do- at this point I do hope you WERE A Success
zero guarantees your going to be active afterwards. i was under the same impression when i had mine done. my running days are over and i still have pain. i hope your turns out better. i'm just saying there are no guarantees and if the doctor said so they are lieing to you.
@@martincarnahan381 Well I must have a good an honest surgeon. He told me that there were no guarantees, in regards to pain, mobility or even proper healing and then I should be aware that the screws could come loose and start showing through the skin over time. This would require an additional surgery to retightening them. He told me to hold off as long as I can. My post that you replied to was five years ago. I am at the point now where and lateral movement of my ankle is very painful. Simple things like switching from the gas pedal to the brake pedal, while driving is awful. He told me that when all of the cartilage is gone, they will begin fusing themselves. Thank you for your advice. I have been very inactive and missing out on so much because of this. I see these articles by John Hopkins or the Mayo clinic where they install new cartilage in the joints and was told I am not a candidate for those types of procedures.
This is not gonna stop me from achieving the life i want.
My foot's been terrible at 30. It's smaller and weaker compared to my right and now my ankles are destroyed.
Looking forward to getting a fusion soon, then i can live life as deemed
Thanks for the encouraging video. I am scheduled for fusion in June 2107 and am looking for success stories. I currently play golf about twice a week and plan to get back to it ASAP.
Hi John,
Thank you for your comment. We wish you the best of luck with fusion. We hope that you'll be back out on the golf course and thriving in no time!
How are now, was the surgery good, are u able to walk now??
consider yourself lucky. i had partial ankle fusion because of arthritis. the screw going through my heel never healed properly and now i have half a foot that is permanently numb and if i'm on my feet to much or especially if i'm working off ladders all day my foot is killing me after about half a day and hurts until i get up in the morning to do it again. i wish i'd never had it done.
Hi I have cronic pain in both my ankles between my Talus and Calcaneus. Thats the heel and main ankle bone. I'll still have full front to back flexibility but little or no sideways or rotation movement. The problem for me is, I spend a lot of time on rough ground, fishing and shooting so the choice is, for a life on pain killers ( that don't do your system any good ! ) with my ankles strapped up. or going for a partial fusion, a choice I've found difficult to make, as I'm sure many others have.
Did you break your ankles in the past?
This is an amazing story, I'm having the same surgery done on 9/10/21. I can wait to not be in the amount of pain I'm in.
How long did it take to recover?
Hi! Did you have it and if so, how are you now?
Had an ankle fusion but it didn't unite..am experiencing soo much pain😭😭😭
U ok now
I have undergone ankle fusion in August 2017. 12 weeks now. Trying to walk with the support of walking stick.
do you know any ankle fusion specialist in india?
Now how you feel ?
Hi mahadeva ..How are you feeling now..Where did you get your surgery done..Please reply.. Thanks
How are you doing now?
I'm going in soon. I would like you to tell me how it went for you all these years later
I had ankle fusion last december, its been 9 months now and the arthritis pain has gone but im still in pain where the fusion, pins are...;-(
Try smoking or eating weed if it’s legal where you are it helps
Maybe you can get the pins removed if you haven’t already. Once bones have healed they can remove the hardware. I had mine removed because after 6 weeks my broken bones were healed. Unfortunately I got MRSA so that’s why they took my hardware out said I didn’t need it but the infection destroyed my cartilage in my ankle and my ankle collapsed. Had fusion surgery 2 days ago with an outer fixation ( no hardware inside of me) I have a metal device on the outside with pins going into my leg which will have to be surgically removed. Doc didn’t want to put hardware inside because it got infected at first surgery. I talk to many at the office that are there because they want hardware removed because it bothers them.
They are using me even tried to break my ankle help using smells help
why the hell do we have to have musak with everything? we can listen without that background crap.