Broken femur - anyone with experience?

[Eden]

oh - like LBTC said ouch! I'm also a 28.5ish inseam currently with 165's and my fitter figures I could even go less than that if they were readily available.... (there are smaller ones - my kids cross bike has 150 somethings, though the quality is not tip top, and there are some specialty places that better ones can be found)
There is a person on this board who has two differently sized cranks. (I think it might be Triskeliongirl??? - you could try a search and see if you can turn up her posts about it, but that one would be tough to find I bet) Hopefully she will see this and give some input.
I've never had any major injuries, but I still have a pile of cleat shims in my left shoe - nothing like an inch, I would suspect, probably more like somewhere between 1/8 and 1/4 inch of difference in all. I've also got an extra insole in my left shoe give it a bit of extra height too, so that's something maybe your fitter could think about doing in place of a shim or two.

[mimitabby]

Yes, I'll send her an email and she'll probably post her. Triskelion.

[DebW]

I have a friend who broke his femur skiing last winter. Spiral fracture of the lower femur, repaired with a rod inside the bone (took 2 surgeries to get it done right) and hip/femoral neck fracture. He's been plagued with a number of screws loosening/backing out. Had the ones in his knee removed, but the doc refuses to removed the screws in his hip until at least a year post-op. He's got the same sort of tendons snapping over bolt head thing. He's been riding a bike on a trainer, says that's better than walking because the hip angle keeps the tendons off the bolt heads.

I've seen Triskeliongirl's crankset. It's custom made. Even the pedal is custom in order to rotate properly with the crank arm. I'm sure she'll give you the details if you ask.