Are you or a loved one like parents, daughter, son or friends getting a plaster cast for the broken leg after a painful leg, knee, ankle or foot sports injury, fracture and need to use crutches ...

Twenty years ago my husband, Mark, broke his left ankle and was in a cast and on crutches for nearly two ... out the standard advice to stay off a broken leg bone for at least six weeks is based ...

Media file 2: Broken foot. Proper use of crutches for non-weight bearing. The knee on the injured leg is bent to keep the injured foot off the ground. Crutch tips are placed in front of you as you ...

Within 24 hours, they had the patient on crutches and encouraged him to put as much weight on the broken leg as he could tolerate. This proved to be highly variable. “But,” said Colonel Brown ...