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Hardware removal after tibial plateau fracture (tpf)

Bones, Joints & Muscles | Last Active: Jun 15 5:12pm | Replies (86)
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@vm1987

I know this is an old post, but.. I had a level 6 bicondular tibial plateau fracture February of 2023. 4 plates and 20 screws. I am thinking of getting my hardware removed due to constant pain. Reading through the comments; I decided I'm going forward with the removal. I need my life back and I hope to get the relief you've all experienced from hardware removal. Thank you all for sharing.

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Jennifer, Volunteer Mentor | @jenniferhunter | Mar 5 2:41pm

@vm1987 Welcome to Connect. You do have a lot of hardware. I had a bad fracture at the ankle end of the tibia also involving the fibula and I had my hardware removed. I have a lot less pain now, but also I have pain related to scar tissue that adhered to the bones, so I work on that and use some techniques from myofascial release. I had started out with an external cage (fixator) screwed into the front of the tibia and the sides of the heel bone and these are points of scar attachment. When you have hardware removed, it will increase the fracture risk for awhile because of all the holes left, but those will fill in and heal. There is a recovery period, but it will not be as bad as the initial fracture recovery.

Jennifer

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