Patients with precise are told to use their arms to deweight themselves and avoid going over their weight bearing limit, which I think is 50 or 75 lbs per nail depending on if you get thicker nail. As mentioned, the two leg hop is basically needed for heavier patients. Often patients don't deweight enough with their arms and get into trouble walking with walker using precise, but patients are definitely encourage to use walker to walk at Paley. It helps to stimulate bone growth. To be safe, I mostly aqua walked in the pool too stimulate bone growth and avoided risk of not deweighting enough with my arms. I did still walked 15 minutes per day with walker but I was 185lbs and my arms would get tired so it was really more like 3 five minute intervals of walking with walker. I did walk 45 minutes in the pool daily too. Probably best to listen to whatever your LL doctor advises you assuming you didn't go with one of the butchers to save money.
Yeah hm.. I'm almost that heavy, I mean I'm def less than 180 but I'm still pretty heavy for my height (but unfortunately in my specific case its mostly fat). I'm thinking of doing precise tibias in one year from now and I admit to being a bit worried about the weight limit or forgetting out of habit about the two feet hop. I still have some time to lose weight though..
I hate the two feet hop because its harder on my wrists, but losing weight should help with this as well, I have plenty of useless fat on my body that is just an inconvenience in multiple ways
I'm doing gnail now and I haven't done the two foot hop in a while, I'm hoping I don't accidentally forget about the two feet hop one morning after precise tibia surgery someday
There is a pool (an extremely shallow pool, less than the height of the legs I think, not sure how useful it is) on the roof of the Novotel hotel in Athens but unfortunately it requires going up some stairs which I think I would be afraid to go up even with some help
Well best case scenario I can diet my way down to 150 pounds over one year aka 67ish kg and then my worries will decrease a bit
I do know the device weight limit is probably a conservative one and it can probably handle a bit more weight than it is rated for
Although it might turn out that I just end up not being able to fit the biggest precise tibia nail into my tibias and then, oh well
There is a precise tibia patient I know where there is a tiny bit of tension between him and the physical therapist who works on him. She wants him to do more walker walking, but he is worried about the nail weight limit issue. I'm sort of on his side, I mean can't I just pay to stay in Athens extra long and do more exercise on the antigravity treadmill where they can artificially decrease the weight on the legs? I dunno ..