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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
Were you in a boot? I spent 6-8 weeks in the boot after my ankle surgery and my calf most assuredly went away like that in that period of time.
Like I said - surprised the hell out of me. I went into my first PT appointment thinking things were in pretty good shape and then he had me do THAT exercise and I was pretty floored.
As far as day to day activity went, I'd have never noticed. But once he showed me how to isolate it I realized that there was just no explosion in that right calf at all.
They way he was able to identify that it was starting to recover was actually watching my knee. When I could do a toe raise on the right leg, that was obviously step one. But then when I had to hold it, if my right knee bent it meant that my leg was compensating with a different muscle to make up for the little 'interior' muscle in the calf not being able to do the work on its own. That knee bending was somehow activating a different muscle group in my calf/leg to make things kinda sorta keep working.
It wasn't until I could do a toe raise and hold it for about 10 seconds on a straight right leg that we were back to near normal.
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I was not in a boot. I guess totally isolating it would make a huge difference.