In this surgery, a portion of your previous wound, or smaller incisions, are used to remove the hardware from your healed bone. The only real restriction is that the hardware leaves holes in the bone, so a hard fall on the affected area would potentially be a place where the bone would crack from. These holes heal in eventually and the bone ends up as strong as a normal bone. You can walk or take weight on the affected limb as soon as you like.

Your wound is closed with dissolvable sutures, so there are no sutures to come out.It can be quite normal for there to be blood on your dressings. If they get wet, either from blood or cleaning, you can change the white Mepore bandages, but leave the Steri-Strips on your skin alone.You can have a shower after 48 hours from your surgery, but do not get the wounds soaked in a bath until two weeks. I will usually see you back about six weeks after the surgery.