
sammm
Premium Platinum
I broke my 5th metertarsel 6 years ago. I had a plate in my foot. It took 4 years for me to stop saying I want the plate out.For me it's just an inconvenience, i can still go to work and i was able to go back a bit earlier with a hope i can take some time off later.
They considered surgery for me and decided they didn't need to. They seem to be really quick to use plates and the like in footballers, and maybe that gets them back that bit quicker, but it also seems to me that you hear a lot about complications in foot injuries ,( i think Van Es had issues with a plate in his foot ), so i'm happy that mine seems to be a conservative approach. My friend's wife was like a game of snakes and ladders, thinking everything is going well then back to the beginning.