Foot bone break, post cast recovery?

westside222,

Unfortunately, mother nature tends to work at her own rate.

If the swelling is what is bothering her the most, the best thing to do it to wear support stocking while she is up and about. These can be the type you get at a pharmacy called TED hose, or just the regular support stockings that patients wear to help reduce lower extremity edema.

True, they may not be real fashionable, but they work.

The problem is that the low pressure systems of the venous and lymphatic systems need muscle contractions to help pump the edema back into the core. When immobilized and/or not using the muscles as much as usual because of an injury, the edema accumulates in the most dependent position.


So, compression and muscle actions, will help pump that edema back into the body. It will take some time for the body to get back to its status quo. You have to also remember, that not just the bone is broken, but the soft tissues around the area and also damaged; muscles torn off attachments, tendons stretched, etc. So, they all have to heal and get back into shape also.


Work on range of motion, then stretching, and finally strengthening. It will take some time, but it will come. Hang in there. Good luck.