Life post crutches getting better every day!
So when my Dr. said we need to start weaning you off crutches and evetually the boot, I said great. So I left the office and then when I got home I stopped using the crutches. It was much easier than I expected. I still gimped around but was crutch free basically May 10. I still didn’t feel too comfortable standing too long but I started yard work. I tilled my garden from a lawn chair. I went to PT Monday May 13 and started with ankle motion front and back and side to side. Still a lot of endema in my foot. Retaining water from lack of use. Still icing every night which helps a lot. A few days later I started the elastic stretching exercises. All felt pretty good. I started to take the boot off at night and to slowly walk without it in the safety of home. Then on Saturday I decided to wear two shoes in my walk to get the newspaper down my driveway. It worked! Seems like rehab is going really well and I am getting better every day. Today I rode an exercise bike and did leg lifts.. I didn’t wear the boot most of the day but I am very careful. I also went to a golf course and hit afew balls with the boot on. That will be a work in progress. But feeling pretty good about my progress.
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You must be very happy with your healing progress, that was a very uplifting update! (But keep that foot uplifted too!) What do you think of Physiotherapy?