How Can I Best Nurse a Broken Foot? Posted: 02-22-06 19:59pm
Hi everyone,
i wish I could say i'm happy to be a
member of this forum, but the truth of it
is I registered because I hope to gain
some advice on how best to care for an
injury I sustained yesterday. Having
said that however, I see that this forum
deals with virtually every conceivable
condition, physical and mental so I
probably will use the forum after i've
recovered :)
anyway, I fell down some steps yesterday,
chipping off a piece of bone and badly
stressing the ligaments down the left side
of my left foot. I of course went to
casualty and have been adviced not to walk
on it for 2 weeks, but it may be a further
6 weeks after that until I can walk
normally again.
I have been given a limited amount of info
on how to promote healing. Keep the
foot elevated, in two days time start to
try and move it etc. I was just
wondering if there was any other advice
you could give?
Anything is appreciated, many thanks.
\\ ben
ps. Here's a link to a pic. I didn't
post it here coz I didn't want to gross
everyone out :) I also think that the
blue-ish area was due to me re-bandaging
too tightly. :?
