I was diagnosis with this back in Jan. Anyone have any helpful information on healing times, treatment options? I have not been running/biking, only swimming. I have seen multiple doctors and have tried the bone stimulator. I am still having issues almost 5 months later. Now my ortho has suggested a micro fracture surgery. Is this too soon? any other options??
I suffered a tibial bone contusion back in 2011. I blogged about the injury, MRI pics, deciding to have surgery and the recovery. You can find my first post here http://www.benmcmurray.com/2011/04/damages-of-skiing.html. Basically my injury wasn’t getting better. I had a subsequent MRI about 6 months after the first which showed improvement. I still couldn’t get back running so I decided to have it scoped. They went in to kind of “check it out”. See if I had damaged cartilage, etc and were prepared to do a few different techniques depending on what they found. Turns out I just had some scar tissue and the rest was fine. So while there was some minor issues the surgery fixed, I think more than anything confirming I wasn’t missing a huge chuck of cartilage or something was a big part of the “mental” injury. Recovery took a while, I think I was running a bit 6-8 weeks later. I’m now 100% back to normal. Hope that account helps. Read my blog posts and let me know if you have any other questions. Good luck.