You need to follow with your operating surgeon.

The bone you (likely) broke is the fibula

Often there is some diastasis with a lateral ankle fracture that is not (or poorly) addressed with surgery and can lead to ankle instability and chronic swelling (despite a well healed fibular fracture).

Best of luck

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I think it depends on your age, severity of the break and type of surgery.

My wife broke her ankle late December 2015. Surgery was a plate with 8 screws. She's mid forties and Dr told her recovery would be 12-18 months to feel back to normal. Basically bones would heal quickly 2-3 months and she could do whatever as long as she could tolerate pain/swelling. All the little stabilizer muscles have been severely stretched and need to heal/strengthen.

She's feeling pretty good and swelling has become less and less frequent. I'm guessing the Dr was spot on and it'll be just over 1 year and she'll be confident in it again and back to "normal"

Thanks I will have a look up with the doc..


BTW I'm late thirties, closer to 40 than 35 :-)

The rest of my ankle is healed up nicely, and stability issues are minimal.

Thanks. I will follow up with the doc, and proceed to see my training as rehab. luckily cycling causes less issues than running.

I had an asshat run over my ankle (on purpose) with his pickup truck.

Distal Fracture of the Fibula, requiring Open Reduction Internal Fixation; ie: plate and 5 screws.

Surgery was July 5, 2010 (42 years old). I was in the pool as soon as the cast was off, and on the trainer a little after that, once I was in the walking boot.

It was tight, sore, and week for a long time. I didn't attempt running until late October.

It took a long time for the swelling to go down, but I don't remember having additional swelling. I think I has some bruising (pooling) after running, but nothing significant.

The tibia is the large shin bone in the front of your leg. I broke that back in 2011 and it took me a full year to get back into good running shape, and I didn't even attempt a jog until at least 6 months after the break, if I recall. You probably didn't fracture your tibia but if you did, then I would suggest taking it easy until you don't see any bruising/soreness (and follow your doc's advice)

What has worked best for me in terms of running after injuries is following the Barry P plan (running every day) starting off with very low volume (i.e. 5/10/15 minutes) and slowly increasing 10% per week and adjusting according to my body's reaction.

Good luck!

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