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Rebreak of tibia in 3 months
by jstogsdill, Nov 06, 2009 10:28AM
My 9 year old races motocross and broke his tib/fib July 4th. It was a closed fracture, but had to be set. He was in a cast from toe to groin for 5 weeks, then a velcro boot for 2 weeks. We got clearance to get back on the bike in Sept. He then fractured his tibia in the same spot the end of October, and we are in a cast again. I am very conserned that maybe we let him do this activity too soon. We put all safety equip on possible. He wears the knee braces that do not allow your leg to hyperextend, to save the knee from injury. We are questioning if the knee braces caused the break, then the re-break. We asked the peds orthopedic and they said they could not tell us either way. They did say from the x-ray, he has normal, strong bones. We are considering not using the knee braces again and only using knee/shin guards. Any info or suggestions would help.
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As he has a rebreak and this can be due to either reason. Keep the cast for 6-8 weeks and he should have a follow up X-ray after 6 weeks and then the final decision to keep the cast till 8 weeks or not.
Give him proper balanced diet with protein and calcium and go for the rehabilitation very slowly and under an expert.
You can always choose the best brace based on his healing and on the suggestions of his physician.
Take care!