Trimalleolar fracture

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.

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.

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…

Extremity trauma is a common emergency department presentation. The authors report a case of an elderly woman who sustained a trimalleolar ankle fracture. Emergency department care includes stabilization of the fracture with a splint, with careful assessment of neurovascular status. Trimalleolar fractures are unstable and thus almost always will require surgical repair. This is true even for elderly patients and those with co-morbidities. Patients who do not get a surgical repair for these…

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August 28, 2011 1 month 25 days post T-Day Oy. Pain hurts. Dear Gods and Goddesses of the Universe, Thank you for my wake-up call. …

Bimalleolar and trimalleolar fractures are extremely severe and will incapacitate a person for an extended period of time.