It baffles me how fragile joints are, unlike other bones once they're injured it's game over. Thankfully the surrounding tissue can ensure some functionality but it's not fun living your life with a malfunctioning limb.
I've destroyed both my elbows and knees and I'm shaking with anticipation for good replacement options. Our mechanical implants tech is terrible, they can't even support the same amount of weight as a destroyed biological joint last I checked (max weight at something like 3kgs for elbow implants if I remember correctly.)
Nothing exciting I'm afraid, I broke my left elbow when I was young and slipped on a puddle right onto it, and the rest I broke last year when I had a great big fall.
The elbows are so god damn fragile, it's like they explode into multiple pieces at the first breeze. The knees are better but you're still at risk of losing your range of motion after prolonged immobilization. I imagine you must have had the same experience with your ankle? In my country they recently discovered that the way they were dealing with ankle sprains in hospitals (by putting a foot cast at a specific angle) was leaving people with lifelong limps so we still have a lot to learn about joints.
