Nope, too many crashes in the 1970s. As we used to say, if you aren't crashing, you're not going fast enough. Wonderful days of being young and stupid.
Football, rugby, water polo (egg beater kick), construction/landscaping and assorted accidents/injuries. No concept of ergonomics.
Same here. I do have a plate and a whole bunch of screws in one leg and a rebuilt tibial plateau. But no joints have been replaced and nothing but a minor ache if I stand too long with weight on that leg. Shift weight to the other leg and Im good.
For me a family history of osteoarthritis and being a runner for many years. Used to run 20-25 miles a week from my late twenties in to my late 30s. Probably didn’t use the best shoes or run on ideal surfaces.
No question, OEM is best.
I still have all my original equipment in good repair but unexplained nerve damage has me walking like someone with a worn out joint in the left knee. The left quad muscle is unable to exert forward motion of the lower leg. One day everything was hunky dory, the next day not so much. Life is unpredictable.
If it is fixable get it fixed as quickly as you can. Walking abnormally for a length of time much shorter than you would think will eventually result in a damaged knee joint, or hip joint, or ankle joint, which ever one is taking the brunt of the abuse from walking abnormally to compensate for the original injury.
And here I thought my rolling gunslinger walk was cool
It is ... til it ain't!
We can rebuild him; we have the technology...
It happened in a London parking lot when I fell the Thursday before Labour Day weekend. I was able to get up and walk but then over the course of the weekend it just got worse. Not wanting to spend 8 hours in emergency department waiting room I went Tuesday morning without an appointment to our family doctor and he saw me within 20 minutes and he figured it was a ruptured quad muscle. Next Monday I went to the orthopaedic dr he referred me to and he agreed with the diagnosis and scheduled me for surgery at 7 that evening and an ultrasound for the afternoon. Cherie and I were having a coffee in the hospital when the surgeon found us and told us that the muscle was fine so I was scheduled for another X-ray and an MRI and those results also said things look ok with possibly seeing nerve damage. So then I was referred to a neurologist and between two techs and the two neurologists I was poked and prodded for over three hours with no conclusive results. Now I am scheduled for a second MRI and going for physio every week. I am walking better now but still have no real strength or stamina in the left leg. Hoping that it will go back to normal but there are no guarantees.
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