I spent 3+ years in a hospital bed with a plaster from my toes up to my hip. The only excersise I can remember was having a boot put on my good leg and I would have to keep straitening my leg and bending at the knee to get some muscle tone into the good leg. My left leg ended up 2+ inches shorter and was badly withered which is the same to day.
My doctor advised that exercise helps in reducing multiplication of the bacteria and that when one does not exercise the bacteria gets ample room for multiplying.
61 Years of Living With Osteomyelitis And Its After Effects
I am 69 year old male and first got Osteo when I was 9 years old in 1958. I live in the UK.
I woke up one morning with pain in my left ankle so bad there were no words to describe just h...
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I got osteo when I was 5. I lived in Weisbaden, Germany and went through 5 I&Ds on right leg and hip...many casts & braces & built up shoes. Osteo left me with a 3 1/2" d...