Scary Fall
Crutches are a real pain. I have been on them for over three weeks and my confidence has been growing. I’m almost as fast as my four year old. This is where I tend to get in trouble.
While going though the garage yesterday, I slipped and caught myself with my injured leg. I listened for the pop but it wasn’t there. I wiggled my toes and they still worked. My foot would move up and down, and side to side. It hurt a little, but I think it was more fear than reality. The cast was intact so I just put my foot up and tried to calm down.
The last thing I want to do is go back under the knife.
Hi Michael
Hopefully you’ll be getting a boot soon, full or part weight-bearing, and without those crutches. It will be so much easier then.
Stay safe!
I wouldn’t worry too much about it. I did the same thing when i was in the cast. The way it was explained to me is that it is very difficult (not impossible) to re-rupture in the cast because of the limited range of motion and rigidness of the cast. The limited ROM will prevent the achilles from stretching. The cast itself will protect the achilles by transferring the weight to the upper part of your leg.
A few do rerupture in a cast. I think it’s probably done mostly by the (atrophied) calf muscle contracting in panic fall-prevention. But many more of us just have scary stories. Most or all of what you can do with your toes and ankle, you should have been able to do immediately post-ATR, i.e. not diagnostic.