I'm 31 years old Male diagnosed with supracondylar fracture elbow with comminuted Intracondylar extension right humerus. Surgery underwent is ORIF with Locking Recon plating under general anaesthesia. This happened 5 years 7 months ago. There are 2 plates and 9 screws in my right arm. Recently, 6 months ago I visited the same Dr and thankfully he said union is complete and implants can be removed. But due to this pandemic I couldn’t able to go for surgery.
Now I recently started doing some light workouts at home like push ups every day and I’m not feeling any pain or discomfort. My question is whether I can start doing workouts in gym like weight lifting? Can I do it safely without causing any issues or damage to my bone?
If I can do it, should I be taking any specific precautions? Also if I get any pain should I stop immediately?
I’ve attached 2 X-Rays. One is taken on day of accident (Feb-2015) and another is latest one with implants (Mar-2020). Thank you in advance for your response
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Hello ,
Thats a nicely done surgery, as regards your query, its a sufficient amount post surgery for bone to heal and it has healed nicely. Ofcourse you can start workouts just be progressive in your weight liftings and dont do extremely heavy weights . Since the bone is united doing loaded exercises will infact increase the bone strength. Plates and screws serve the purpose only till the fracture is fresh , once the fracture unites they dont transmitt any load through them and its taken by the healed bone just like in normal people. So bottom line , YES u can go back to your workouts !!
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