PT needed for broken fibula
I broke my right fibuls near the ankle slipping on an icy sidewalk in Dec 2017. The cast just came off Feb 8, 2018 (I had no surgery) The ortho doctor required PT for me 3X week for a month. I cannot find a therapist that takes medicaid in my city/suburbs and they say it will take up to 90 days to process my medicaid HMO, only then can I go to a therapist. Don’t you think 3 months after the fact is a little late to start therapy??? Is there anything I can do at home while I’m waiting??? Any exercises or things I am not able to do. My primary physician gave me Mobic 15mg for the swelling
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Mark
Hi Sharon,I’m pasting in something from a post I did in January. I’m about 5 months in in my broken fib recovery right now. Hope there’s something helpful there. E-mail with questions if you want I also started walking on my crutches without the boot, putting a (very) little weight on my foot, just trying to get some heel-toe action going, since the boot doesn’t really give you any of that.Later, hundreds of toe raises and heel raises helped. At first on two feet, now I can do them one at a time. I’m just over three months into my recovery. For walking, weight lifting (I’m a gym junkie) and running on the treadmill, I feel good, although the ankle is still sore. On the ice, I’m still having trouble with my right footed (injured side) jumps…the ones that take off and land on that foot. It hurts to take off and land (not terrible, but there. The “hops” aren’t quite there yet…foot arch, ankle strength, achilles. I’m about at 80% for skating.If you have any questions or want to talk, just send me an e-mail @ [email protected]. Anything I can do to help.