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Fractured ankle, whole leg in pain!
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I slipped on ice and fractured my ankle (left, inside or medial malleolus) on 10th January.
The first week was fine.
Then after another week I had pains in my calf. I had another appointment coming up at which they removed it (checking for DVT) and was given the all clear and had it re-plastered. Since then, I had really bad pains in my thigh so I went back to the hospital after not being able to sleep but there was no bruising or swelling so it was just put down to muscles being held in an awkward position. The thigh pains have since gone and now my knee is extremely still - it's as if everything has "contracted" and gone tight due to having the leg bent for almost a month now.
Are there any recommended exercises I can be doing to help? Obviously I can't move my ankle - will trying to "force" my knee straight help to loosen everything or is that not a good thing to do??
I'm regularly awake between 3am - 5am in discomfort so any advice would help!!!
Thanks
The first week was fine.
Then after another week I had pains in my calf. I had another appointment coming up at which they removed it (checking for DVT) and was given the all clear and had it re-plastered. Since then, I had really bad pains in my thigh so I went back to the hospital after not being able to sleep but there was no bruising or swelling so it was just put down to muscles being held in an awkward position. The thigh pains have since gone and now my knee is extremely still - it's as if everything has "contracted" and gone tight due to having the leg bent for almost a month now.
Are there any recommended exercises I can be doing to help? Obviously I can't move my ankle - will trying to "force" my knee straight help to loosen everything or is that not a good thing to do??
I'm regularly awake between 3am - 5am in discomfort so any advice would help!!!
Thanks
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