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A member asked:
Can i start walking on my broken foot? my doctor actually told me to stay off of it for 6 weeks but it feels fine. it's been a week since i broke it.
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No: You are hopefully in a cast or brace of some sort, you should not walk on it and allow it to heal. If you do walk on it you can have chronic deformity of the foot secondary to non healing fracture.
Answered 3/8/2017
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Call your doctor.: If only one week has gone by since the fracture and you foot feels fine, tells me that the fracture probably was not that severe. "Staying off of it" can mean a lot of things making it hard to determine the exact post fracture regimen. It sounds like a walking fracture boot might be the ticket.
Answered 7/12/2016
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