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Broken legs and ankles heal better if you walk on them within weeks
Using crutches for months is largely a thing of the past. Early weight-bearing has real benefits
If you are fully immobilized, “you come out of the cast with a sort of hairy, withered leg that takes forever to overcome,” says orthopedic trauma surgeon Alex Trompeter of St. George’s University of London. “It’s a little bit of a race postoperatively between the bone healing and the fixation breaking,” says orthopedic trauma surgeon Marilyn Heng of the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. In a study that looked back at outcomes for a series of patients, Heng and her colleagues showed that those who walked early on femurs that had broken just above the knee had no higher rate of complications than those who stayed off the leg for six weeks.
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