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How to heal a leg fracture?
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See below: Not all fracture are alike, but routine injury we apply cast on, for about 6 weeks if we see some healing we moving to movable and they could weight on it then some physical therapy to back in shape all together it about 12-16 weeks.
Answered 3/30/2023
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