http://aaron-77.com/legs_11feb08.jpg
yes, those are both my legs. lololol


quick history:
Oct 6th, 2007 - Completely ruptured right achilles playing netball
In a boot for 3 months to let it heal
Jan 1st, 2008 - Out of the boot
Jan 6th, 2008 - Tore the gastrocnemius fibres of the musculotendinous junction. Basically, I tore the calf muscle where it becomes the achilles tendon. Not a complete tear, but 60% of the way there.
Another 6 weeks or so in the boot.

So nearly 4.5 months of crutches and boot and the result is the legs above. The left I reckon is even larger than it was at the beginning

Pretty funny story all up (now. Wasn't when it happened)

cerb, you scare me like you wont believe buddy

That's a sexy set of legs right there

tan wouldn't go astray

can you post a
"warning if you're eating" next time
my pasta is now over my laptop

is my lack of tan really that offensive? :S

Tannings so awesome, hit up a solarium STAT cerb.

hit a gym up more like it

one leg, leg press

i think it's just the legs in general, tan or no tan.
perhaps some others could post their legs?

did i say that out loud??

hit a gym up more like it

one leg, leg press

I've been having to do that up the stairs here at home while on the crutches. Hence the left leg is so HEUGE right now.

that'll buff right out amirite?

you first crazy morton

Cerb plays netball.

Goddam, you're leg got that ruined just from playing netball? Gym teachers didn't make us do 10 minutes of stretches before sport for jokes eh.

not any more cerb doesn't. cerb is retired.

edit: yeah, stretching is good. but I did do some stretches before the game. can't remember how well I stretched tho. plus sometimes these things just happen :/

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oh ok i'll try...but everyone knows i can't do this
http://lh6.google.com/crazymorton/R7Adw4FyIpI/AAAAAAAAAtg/6H8eNsRUcwI/s400/calves.JPG



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its a good way to see up girls skirts! mmm netball chicks

not any more cerb doesn't. cerb is retired.

:*(

thx mitch...
i also got it.....woo hoo!!!

yeah right before me post :(

where my calf at?

muscle atrophy from lack of use.

quite normal, however you need to work on that leg to bring your strength back up.
and you also need to stop protecting that leg and favoring the other one.

been there and done this with my knee fracture last year - and i work in a hospital and see this sort of thing all the time.

go and see a physio if you aren't already, and get a gym/exercise program that will be tailored to work the areas affected by your various injuries.

also...

The left I reckon is even larger than it was at the beginning

of course. you have been running around for the last 4 months basically favoring the left leg.

i was on crutches for 10 weeks, my left leg and shoulders beefed up like buggery.
my right leg is almost the size of the other again.

give it time.

i reckon he already knows everything you just said in those 2 posts, fyi

haha paveway made me lol

should have seen the leg after the first 3 months in the boot when it hadn't been used at all. it was totally just skin and bone. never realised there was such a noticeable edge to the shin bone.

the leg has already beefed up about 10% in the last 2-3 days I reckon just from not relying on the boot so much. that was the main idea for taking the photo - to compare it in a few days and see how it's improving.

i haven't seen a physio. the specialist i went to didn't seem to think it was entirely necessary. he gave me some stretches to do to get it ready, and those alone have been great. when i mentioned i have an exercise bike he suggested jumping on that on very low resistance to start with, which I've only just started doing (been too lazy lately).

it will take a long time to go back to the size that it was.

do your exercises - your other limbs will thank you for it, and i wont see you in my workplace.

i reckon he already knows everything you just said in those 2 posts, fyi

ahha

damn cerbs how'd you manage to do that in the first place? was the second injury just cos the first didn't heal up enough?

ps: it was nice of you to tuck up the old fella for the pic too

DC: yeah, put on a few kg's in the past few months. getting around on the crutches was tough work, which was probably good otherwise i would have put on more weight. good tricep workout, that's for sure :)

I'm getting emails from the fun run series i was doing last year reminding me the first one is coming up soon. I wish I was running. :( I've lost so much fitness, and i can't see me doing any fun runs till maybe next year. gotta give this another 3-4 months yet before it's fully healed before i even consider anything like that.

Jim: first injury was I just went to start running from a standing start and away she went. from what i've heard that's how most achilles injuries happen - pushing off on a dorsiflexed foot (foot pointing up relative to the leg)

second injury i stepped on my cat in the dark (embarassing much?) and i must have flinched pretty severely in trying to get off him. it was essentially a completely new injury, but was related to the first cos the muscle would have been so atrophied as well as shortened from having had limited movement for 3 months.

did you get key hole surgey for the achilles or something?
Wheres your scar?

At least you don't have to use a shower chair anymore! Or wrap your leg in a plastic bag...

no surgery - it healed by itself.

the specialist i saw is a bit anti-surgery with the achilles. he feels the potential risks are too high given that surgery doesn't really gain much in regards to healing time and final result. he will operate if the two ends don't meet up, but if they do he prefers to avoid it.

in contrast, he's not afraid of slicing and dicing when it comes to repairing an anterior cruciate ligament, so it's not that he's strictly anti-surgery, just on the achilles.

was fine by me. any time you don't need to get cut open is a good result i reckon.

and yeah, standing in the shower is so awesome. at least i could take the boot off to shower in tho - much better than the first 4 days while i was wearing this :P

Yea so are you holding the old fella in one hand or throw it over your shoulder while you took the pic?
Did you wear gloves or bare hand?

your mum was holding it for me

now do one where we compare your testicles

Thread clearly should have been titled "Dude, where's my calf?"

lol, i'll pay that

Thread clearly should have been titled "Dude, where's my calf?"

think it was meant along the lines of ...

WHERE'S...MY...CALF...AT....
wheres my calf at...wheres my calf at.

as in the terrible 'where's your head at' song




oh and also looking up netballers skirts (i imagine it was indoor mixed)
its not all that pretty most of the time.
i play indoor cricket 4 nights a week and the netball form is generally pretty poor apart from one or two ladies per team.

i thought it was a parody of the show "Where my dogs at?"

right after hogan knows best

thats some serious atrophy, awesome eye opener cerb

i play indoor cricket 4 nights a week and the netball form is generally pretty poor apart from one or two ladies per team.

the old valley (new westend) indoor netball centre had a much higher percentage of hawt women

old valley is now demolished to the ground spooka! only took em 3 weeks aswell (i may work several hundred meters away, as does casa)

get an automatic car
soon your right leg will be beef and your left lazy as

cept for those auto driving mongs who use both legs.

they are driving a v8 super car didn't you know orbs