Stiff Stiff Stiff
Uncategorized June 13th, 2008I went in for my 2nd post op appointment(5 weeks from surgery and 1st time with the surgeon). They removed my cast and said the wound was healing fine. After the surgeon left, they put me into a boot with 2 heel wedges and tried to put my foot in, and the foot wouldn’t let it. My original cast which I had on for 23 days(after 12 days of splint) had my foot pointed down as far as gravity would take it while sitting down. This boot is trying to get my foot to be neutral minus the 2 wedges which is about 1 in from 90 degrees. I didn’t really like all the tension and the surgeon had left already, so I told the boot technician that I would work on getting it to sit properly in the boot. When I went home, I put a small towel in the boot, to add another half inch of flex to the foot. It just seems to be way to stiff to flex this much right now. Do I just need to suck it up and let it flex or gradually flex it into position over the next couple of weeks?