Trimalleolar fracture

When I broke my left ankle in three places last January, I did plenty of internet research. Like all good nerds, when faced with a new and frightening situation my default mode is to gather information. I found plenty of excellent information, particularly from the American College of Orthopedic Surgeons. But what I couldn’t find, and rather desperately wanted, was a sense of what to expect at what time during my recovery. Instead I found plenty of people writing about how they still limped…

An ankle fracture can range from a simple break in one bone, which may not stop you from walking, to several fractures, which forces your ankle out of place and may require that you not put weight on it for a few months.

Updating my recovery from a trimalleolar ankle fracture: months 2 and 3 after the accident and ORIF surgery. Walking! Dealing with healing. Processing feelings and trauma.

I declare today… NO FLIP FLOPS DAY!!! So this does not happen to you… Has it been a year since I fell in flip flops and broke my leg and ankle? You can read about the beginning of the journey here. Look at me now… I have a triathlon under my belt… 700 meters swim, …

As I wrote in a previous post with much more detail (see here), I fell off a mountain and broke my ankle in three places, then managed to break a bone in my 5th toe on the other foot. This meant that my right ankle was in a hard cast for 6 weeks and I…

In January, Scott and I planned and went on a three day hiking trip in New Zealand. NZ is famous for

How to recover from a trimalleolar ankle fracture. Rehabilitation process for a fracture ankle resulting in surgery. Rehabilitation goals, post-operative guideline, strength training, balance training, functional training, plyometrics. Return to Activity!

Bimalleolar ankle fractures are serious injuries that almost always require surgery. Trimalleolar fractures are similar injuries.

Medial, lateral and posterior malleolar fractures are depicted here with surgical repair of the medial and lateral fractures. A syndesmosis screw is placed to reduce the separation of the fibula from the tibia distally.