Tibia Pin Removal?

Tough call but one I'm familiar with. My son broke his femur in 04 and they didn't rod it like yours but instead put a plate on the outside of the femur. The surgeon who did the surgery in Oklahoma was emphatic that the plate should be removed down the road to lessen the risk of the plate causing stress risers and causing an easier re-break. Well it took less than a year for him to crash bend the plate and re-break the femur. In 2 weeks he goes for surgery to get the plate removed.

With rodding you don't have the stress riser issue, however you do have the issue of trying to get a mangled rod out of a broken bone should you biff and break it again. Our local surgeon in Winnipeg would be of the opinion to leave the rod or plate alone unless it's bugging you. We had to convince him we wanted the plate out of my kids leg as he really wasn't keen on doing the surgery.

My uneducated bottomline would be if you plan to continue to race the rod should come out.

Also I'll move this to the correct forum for Injuries/Training.