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.

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…

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.

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…

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

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…

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.

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, …

My top 10 real life tips to survive ankle surgery that I wish someone had told me. A must read for anyone who needs ankle surgery!