Dear Judith,

Thank you for your reply.
I will try to comment/reply, but I need to underline at the beginning that some questions are difficult for me to reply as I am not professional, and when going to PT sessions I assume that my PT is and I can trust him, therefore I do not always ask why he is doing this or that.

From your reply and from the follow-up of the story I conclude that I should not have trusted him.

FIRST the follow-up.
Yes, you are right: what I had in my ankle turned out to be bacterial infection probably due to too aggressive PT. My OS got furious on the practices of my PT - especially on kinesiotapes being put on my scar only 6 weeks after operation. This is what in his view started infection as my skin was very delicate at that time and got irritated by the tapes (especially that the scabs were removed and massage performed without disinfecting the scar).
The objective of the tapes? As my PT explained: to get rid of oedema in the ankle.
Now I know the approach was wrong, but it is too late.
My OS would like to remove the hardware as soon as possible - most probably in two weeks time. He says the timing should be OK, as I will hit 3.5 month from operation and the bone should be healed by that time.

In terms of ROM:
difficult to say as nobody has ever measured it, but today at 12 weeks post-op I can easily walk up and down the stairs. Dorsiflexion with famous knee to wall test is only 2 inches smaller than the other ankle. Plantarflexion is almost the same.
For eversion and inversion - hard to say as I've had a sprain there so my PT advised to be cautious with these exercises.


Thank you for your reply
If there is any advice you could give me at this stage of the process, would be grate. But as you see the follow-up is not the best one