Is it possible to walk without a cast if you suspect an ankle fracture (after a week and a half)?
A week and a half ago, I slipped on a wet porch at the dacha and injured my ankle. My leg was swollen and it was painful. The first day I walked only when necessary and leaning on my husband or a stick. But by the evening of the next day she was walking on her own, it was a little painful and she had a limp. The next evening I arrived safely home, slowly and limping, but walking and standing a lot. The next day large bruises appeared on both sides of the foot, and the next day at the base of the toes. I decided to go to the emergency room just in case. I had to sit motionless for three hours with my legs down, and my leg swelled like it had never swollen before. We took pictures. The doctor looked at them for a long time and asked if there had been a fracture before. I answered that in childhood, but I don’t remember which leg and in what place, it seems in the lower leg. The doctor said that it seemed to him that there was a fracture and put him in a cast for a month, and then in a week.
And so I was tormented with this plaster. Now I can’t walk normally, I can barely hobble. The crumbs fall out and scratch my leg. Since the swelling has subsided greatly, the leg in the cast dangles in all directions, walking has become a little more comfortable because it bends a little, but is there any benefit then? Somehow I really can’t believe that it’s a fracture (my fractures hurt much worse, though in other places) and I don’t want to waste a whole month wearing a cast.
And here are the main questions:
1. Is it possible to ask the doctor to remove the plaster? (I have a feeling that almost everything is fine with my leg, but the cast is terribly in the way). Or is it dangerous and if there is a fracture, the bones will separate?
2. And is it possible to somehow determine for sure whether this is an old healed or a fresh non-healed fracture? Maybe after a week in a cast and a week and a half from the injury it will be possible to find out?
3. I began to often pinch the outer bone, which is round and sticks out. As if she was being scratched with crumbs or rubbed with plaster. What to do with it, is it dangerous, will it develop some kind of infection? I can't even watch it.
4. If you still can’t do without plaster, can it be replaced with an orthosis? And which one is better? Near the house they sell a leather one with laces, with ribs, and a plastic-fabric one with Velcro.
1) to determine whether there is a fracture, an x-ray is repeated 5-7 days after the injury - in 95% of cases the diagnosis can be determined, but sometimes even after this the diagnosis is not entirely clear
2) if there were hemorrhages under the skin and swelling, then at least the ligaments were torn and plaster is also needed for their full fusion
3) in a cast it only makes sense to walk on crutches, but if you walk on a cracked cast and step on your foot, there is no point
4) if the skin rubs with crumbs, the plaster can be replaced by an orthopedist/traumatologist with a new one or a polymer one
5) yes, in the event of a fracture, if you step on the leg, it may shift, fail to heal, or heal incorrectly, but even without a fracture, with significant damage to the ligaments without plaster, instability may develop
6) if the plaster is loose, it needs to be either replaced or bandaged tighter with a bandage
7) an orthosis may be suitable, but it must be selected individually (for some injuries, a plaster cast or a polymer fixing bandage is needed). Most often (but not always) such an orthosis is suitable for such injuries (but a good orthosis is always expensive, and if you choose a cast or a bad orthosis, then a cast is better) http://www.bauerfeind.com.ua/produkcija/bandazhi-i -ortezy/stopa-i-lodyzhka/product/caligaloc.html
“leather with laces, with ribs, and plastic-fabric with Velcro” - do not reflect all the possible properties of the orthosis and indications for its use; some companies only have in their arsenal several orthoses for different injuries that fit this description. Good orthoses are Medi, Bauerfind, DonJoy and some others.
January 10, 2012 at 11:14 pm By branches
I broke my toe in the water park in Obolon - and on Wednesdays we traditionally have a sauna. Is it possible to go or is it better not to warm up?
January 10, 2012 at 11:28 pm By branches
January 11, 2012 at 08:11 Branches
you can, why not
January 11, 2012 at 09:16 Branches
If sauna+beer+deffki = then you can’t. Will they put a plaster on your finger?
I went through the same problem myself. If a finger is broken, they can put a “plastic cast”. It washes easily with a hose - I even went to the sauna with it. And it looks cool.
January 11, 2012 at 09:56 Branches
Vol 10.01.2012 23:14 writes:
Well, you didn’t break your finger between your legs, but on your leg. So you can go to the sauna without a sauna!
And in the steam room you need to keep an eye on the plaster so that it doesn’t overheat, otherwise it will happen. Wrap it in something, at least a towel.
January 11, 2012 at 10:28 am By branches
gleb71 01/11/2012 09:16 writes:
If a finger is broken, they can put a “plastic cast”. It washes easily with a hose - I even went to the sauna with it. And it looks cool.
January 11, 2012 at 01:17 pm By branches
January 11, 2012 at 02:03 pm By branches
vovast 01/11/2012 13:17 writes:
January 11, 2012 at 02:47 pm By branches
January 11, 2012 at 02:51 pm By branches
Spero meliora 01/11/2012 14:47 writes:
He doesn’t ask, is it possible to take a steam bath? Is it possible to go to the sauna? Agree, you can go to the sauna.
Or is it better not to heat it?
January 11, 2012 at 02:53 pm By branches
+1, on the contrary, the foot needs cold and rest. Heat will increase swelling and hematoma in the fracture area.
January 11, 2012 at 03:12 pm By branches
Ugo Chaves 01/11/2012 14:03 writes:
This. I remember the cold is not needed all the time, but only for the first 24 hours. And then why? The hematoma can also be minimal if the piano does not fall on your finger. In general, I myself went to the sauna after 3-4 days.
The vidocq, I must say, is not for the faint of heart - half my leg was in a cast.