re: Ankle Fusion surgery--any input??

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Yes you lose some motion, but with an arthritic ankle it's usually not moving great already.

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This is so true in my case. My range of motion other than flexing the joint up and down in a straight line with the leg is severely limited.

The Dr. and I have talked about this issue a couple times already and he concurred that the amount of motion I'd lose is not much more than I can't accomplish at this point in time.

When I was going to PT to see if that would help, I never saw one patient out of the dozens that had ankle fusion surgery. There were knee and hip replacements galore, but no ankle fusion or ankle replacement patients.