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What does rehabilitation after leg fracture surgery involve?
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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.
Answered 7/23/2012
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