A 30-year-old member asked:
What does rehabilitation after leg fracture surgery involve?
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Dr. Jeffrey Sideranswered
Sports Medicine 41 years experience
Rehab: Typically one undergoes a program to decrease pain and swelling with ultrasound and electric stim
exercises to regain full motion in the surrounding joints
then one must work on strengthening the affected muscles
and to ultimately increase endurance.
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