Fractured leg broken foot

#Foot #xray: fracture dislocation (homolateral #Lisfranc) after #motorcycle accident. #radiologist #radiology #pain #trauma #injury

Gross! Nasty dead skin after 2 weeks in a splint followed by 6 weeks in a cast. The blue marks were left on my leg from the initial surgery and tape was put on 2 weeks after surgery to hold incision spot together. A warm bath with Epson Salt and carefully applying a small amount of Dead Sea salt to my foot, leg and ankle while in the bathtub got rid of almost all of the dead skin. After rubbing dead skin off for about an hour with a wash cloth, I then dried my foot and leg and applied Shea…

Broken ankle recovery story with a happy ending...

One of your legs gets really small and it’s weird.

If you have injured your ankle, resulting in a severe sprain or fracture, you may need to wear a cast to keep it immobilized while it heals. Stanford School of Medicine explains that a cast is made of either plaster or fiberglass, which encompasses the injury during the healing process.

Typically, it takes a broken ankle about six to eight weeks. Therefore, if you want to help your broken ankle heal, you might want to consider taking the following steps.

I'm one of the lucky ones that have broken a bone in their body, and i really hope I don't break a bone in the future!

Pinned with a broken foot - but, not a broken heart!