Lisfranc Recovery and Travel
A bit of background: I slipped on slush on January 28th and was originally told that I had just sprained my ankle when I went to urgent care, but was given a referral to ortho. I had a call a few days later to tell me my foot was actually broken. When I went to my ortho appointment a week after my injury that’s when I first heard of Lisfranc injury. I was then told I tore my lisfranc ligament and broke my 2nd metatarsal. He told me I would need surgery as soon as possible. I wanted to put it off since I’m a full time electrical engineering student and had a bunch of midterms coming up and wanted to wait until my winter break. My doctor said that wouldn’t be the best plan of action so I trusted him. I had surgery on February 13th, it was a Friday so a bit extra scary lol. My doctor didn’t clear me for PWB until I was 9 weeks post op and referred me to PT. I’m now 13 weeks post op and just started FWB.
I have travel plans for the summer and hoping to be able to go at almost normal pace. I’m going to Montreal for osheaga in july/august and to the UK August/September. What should be my expectations? Last year when I went to a music festival I did about 15k steps a day for 4 days and went to London and Paris last year as well and did around 25k steps a day for 8 days. I know not to expect to be at my normal but hoping to still make the best out of the trips.