Broken ankle recovery

Typically, it takes a broken ankle about six to eight weeks. Therefore, if you want to help your broken ankle heal, you might want to consider taking the following steps.

It was a warm spring evening in San Francisco. I just got home after spending the day in Oakland working on my motorcycle. I parked my bike in my usual spot at home, but unfortunately the ground was…

Below are some ways to keep busy when you’re bedridden with a broken leg. I’ve also included some tips and tricks on how to deal with this unfortunate situation. Keeping busy: Read a bo…

I declare today… NO FLIP FLOPS DAY!!! So this does not happen to you… Has it been a year since I fell in flip flops and broke my leg and ankle? You can read about the beginning of the journey here. Look at me now… I have a triathlon under my belt… 700 meters swim, …

Updating my recovery from a trimalleolar ankle fracture: months 2 and 3 after the accident and ORIF surgery. Walking! Dealing with healing. Processing feelings and trauma.

Here are four important questions you need to ask yourself if your ankle is still swollen.

These products will help you be more mobile and get more done on your own while recovering from a broken ankle.

Sandra Bornstein shares what she learned after ganglion bone cyst foot surgery and offers useful tips for the recovering from foot surgery.

A broken ankle can be difficult. It may require a lot of effort, but it is possible to do so with proper rehabilitation.

Sprained and broken ankles share some symptoms and causes. Here’s how to tell the difference and how to treat each injury immediately.

OK Ankle exercises? Weird, I know. But, your ankles are pretty important and without them you can do all the other fun exercises! So if you have weak ankles or you are having pain in your ankles during other work outs, this might help you out! I was a soccer player "back in the day" and I always had to wear ankle braces while playing. I hurt my ankles more times than I can remember. What is crazy is that they still give me trouble. You would expect them to hurt after running a lot or when…

When I broke my left ankle in three places last January, I did plenty of internet research. Like all good nerds, when faced with a new and frightening situation my default mode is to gather information. I found plenty of excellent information, particularly from the American College of Orthopedic Surgeons. But what I couldn’t find, and rather desperately wanted, was a sense of what to expect at what time during my recovery. Instead I found plenty of people writing about how they still limped…

This is a post for anyone who may find my blog because of my social media posts on having a broken foot earlier this year. I think it's time...

Phew! I made it! Well...sort of. It has been seven weeks since the surgery, and although I'm out of the cast, I am now in a walking boot. The last few days have been a little frustrating, but I know we're on the right track. What I Would Have Done Differently - Understood the Process When we went in to the doctor's office on Wednesday, I legitimately thought that I'd be walking out on my own two feet with the help of the walking boot. Turns out that was not the case, and I've got another two…

As I wrote in a previous post with much more detail (see here), I fell off a mountain and broke my ankle in three places, then managed to break a bone in my 5th toe on the other foot. This meant that my right ankle was in a hard cast for 6 weeks and I…

I have some more tips for those recovering from foot and ankle surgery. I recently had some screws taken out, so I am speaking from fresh experience. :)

Found yourself with a broken ankle? Here are the broken ankle survival supplies you're going to need to get you through the next few weeks.

Here's the story: 11 days ago, I had surgery on my ankle. So for the past 11 days, I've been 99% stuck at home, spending most of my time trying to arrange my pillows in a way that keeps my foot up and my laptop usable. (My neck and shoulders aren't on speaking terms with me right now... but they sure haven't been quiet.) To fill some of the time, I figured I'd compile the things I've learned from the experience, and share my take on how to prepare for ankle surgery. It all started with a…

So you just came back from the doctor and they told you that you have a stress fracture, peroneal tendon or Achilles' tendon tear. Now what...