I am planning to do tibia externals.How common is nerve damage with it ? I read stories when nerve damage lead to problems with the feet movement. So what to do with this and will it heal over time ? Should it be main concern before planing surgery?
With a good doctor Nerve damage is not from the surgery but from the rate of lengthening almost 100% of the time, as long as you stick to 1mm a day for femur and .75 with tibia But once you have surgery you will understand why everyone finds it difficult to stick to that rate. Even with risk of nerve damage. I vowed to myself not to go over 1mm a day and here I am with femur fixators doing 1.25, and some other people doing 1.5mm and more per day
How does that not hurt ridiculously badly? I’m at 1mm a day (albeit femur internals) and the third lengthening of the day is always the worst, I feel very tight for hours after.
But I mean about nerve damage during surgery. Of course experience doctor matters. But what about individual location of nerves ?