Just wondering do they still put casts on broken foot UPDATE

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i twisted my ankle/ foot saturday and its been bugging me ever since. Today i get to go to the doctors (son of a #$#$# doctor charging me 75 bucks just to get a slip to get an Xray) to see if its broke. I broke this playing tennis back in 1991 and think i might recracked it. questions

Do they still put cask on broken foot or do they put those walking ones on

anyone know if you can drive a car with one of those walking ones on (my luck it will get stuck under the gas and plow into the front of walmart : )

if you did it on job and they fire you anyone know if you got any action if your a self employed contractor

my fear in a way is my foot is broke i wont be able to work and they will go your FIRED and i wont have a easy ass job anymore
 
[quote name='slidecage']i twisted my ankle/ foot saturday and its been bugging me ever since. Today i get to go to the doctors (son of a #$#$# doctor charging me 75 bucks just to get a slip to get an Xray) to see if its broke. I broke this playing tennis back in 1991 and think i might recracked it. questions

Do they still put cask on broken foot or do they put those walking ones on

anyone know if you can drive a car with one of those walking ones on (my luck it will get stuck under the gas and plow into the front of walmart : )

if you did it on job and they fire you anyone know if you got any action if your a self employed contractor

my fear in a way is my foot is broke i wont be able to work and they will go your FIRED and i wont have a easy ass job anymore[/QUOTE]
It depends on whats broken and how badly its broken.

Depends on how bad your foot is broken and if you can walk on it without crutches.

Yes, they're not supposed to fire you because you got hurt on the job. But your laws will vary from state to state reguarding your contractor status.

If you hurt yourself at work, you should have reported the injury immediately. If you haven't, do so.
 
[quote name='dafoomie']If you hurt yourself at work, you should have reported the injury immediately.[/QUOTE]
10-4 on that point.

A buddy of mine really messed up his back while he was working, but he didn't say anything about it until a week after it happened. The company refused to take responsibility, and wouldn't give him worker's compensation because he didn't report it right away. I think he was going to appeal it somewhere, but I dunno what ended up happening.

Moral of the story: fill out the proper forms as soon as it happens! You have a lot to lose if you don't.
 
Usually, now-a-days, surgeons set up a board supported in between two barrels, place the injured limb on said-board, cut off the blood flow with a tourniquet and cut the flesh with a scalpel then cut the bone with a capitol saw. Then the surgeon dips the amputee's stub in a kettle of hot tar.

Erm... Sorry. Havin' Civil War flashbacks.
 
i just hope i dont get any stupid doctors this time. I fell on the ice back in 98 went to hospital got it xray. Doctor come walking up to me saying I need to get over to this one place and fast my foot is broke in 3 spots, i Mean my foot didnt even hurt. I had to take the day off work and go over to the other place. I get there and the doctor goes UMMM the break is like 7 years old and i was like yea i broke it back in 91. the dude at the hospital couldnt even read an xray right lol
 
In answer to your question about whether or not you will need a cast if your ankle is broken:

That depends mainly upon the type of fracture, the degree of angulation and displacement of the fracture fragments, which bone or bones you actually fractured, and your willingness to comply with instructions for weight-bearing status. Usually, however, a short-leg cast (below the knee) would be applied.

This all assumes that you have a normal neurovascular exam in the effected extremity and that the location of the fracture does not put you at risk for necrosis (tissue death) or nonunion because of inadequate blood supply to one of the fracture fragments. In that situation, your fracture would require open reduction and internal fixation (ie: surgery).

If you didn't fracture your ankle and just experienced a high-grade sprain, you could typically get away with an air-splint, crutches, and either non-weight bearing or partial weight-bearing status.

Hope that helps.
 
About 13 years ago me and my family were on vacation in vermont. My mother broke her leg and she went to the hospital. It was pretty bad, but she had to insist on a cast cause the doctor said they don't usually use casts up there. The doctors down near boston thought it was ridiculous that they didn't want to put a cast on it.

So, if you're near civilization you'll get a cast.
 
what i broke in 1991 was the side of my foot along the pinkie toe like bone running down the side of the foot. I broke it in 3 spots when the put the cast on it. that is where its sore and swelling a little bit. I just wonder if a recracked (broke) that again. Im thinking about calling the BBB on the doctor i went to they charged me 90 bucks and the #$#$# didnt even touch my foot. after waiting 1 hour after the time i was to see them. They come in the room and goes UMM we need an xray and walks out. He didnt even look at the foot or even feel the foot to see if any bone is broke.
 
[quote name='slidecage']Im thinking about calling the BBB on the doctor i went to they charged me 90 bucks and the #$#$# didnt even touch my foot. after waiting 1 hour after the time i was to see them. They come in the room and goes UMM we need an xray and walks out. He didnt even look at the foot or even feel the foot to see if any bone is broke.[/QUOTE]
He deserves the money for having to have a conversation with an idiot like you.
 
my sister is currently in a cast with a broken foot from a trampoline accident, the cast is pink, and she painted her crutches purple, with purple towels, a purple silk netting, and sparklies
 
[quote name='Epic Wolf']My friend broke his a few months ago, he got a cast & crutches, was fun to watch him :bouncy: everywhere....[/QUOTE]


did he wobble around for a few days after getting the cast off. I remember that back in 1991 i limbed for like a week until i got used to walking on that foot again
 
Wow when did hospitals change the rules of xrays. I went in today at 7am got done at 8am and was like so i just sit there and wait to see what happens. The dude goes no you go home and call us in 1 or 2 DAYS. I was like What if the foot is broke you tell people to go home and wait 1 to 2 days for someone to read it. and they go YEAP. So now i wont know until up to friday if im walking on a broken foot.. i wonder if you go into that hospital shot if they make you come back 2 days later to confirm you got a bullet in you
 
[quote name='slidecage']Wow when did hospitals change the rules of xrays. I went in today at 7am got done at 8am and was like so i just sit there and wait to see what happens. The dude goes no you go home and call us in 1 or 2 DAYS. I was like What if the foot is broke you tell people to go home and wait 1 to 2 days for someone to read it. and they go YEAP. So now i wont know until up to friday if im walking on a broken foot.. i wonder if you go into that hospital shot if they make you come back 2 days later to confirm you got a bullet in you[/QUOTE]

I went in about 5 or 6 months ago for, what I thought was, a broken toe. It was after regular appointment hours (6 or 7 p.m.). I had done it early in the day and it had been getting worse. They had an area for people with non major emergencies (need doctor but not an emergency room). Basically, say I got there at 6. I was seen in about 15 minutes, was examed, then sent down for x-rays. Waited about 10 minutes, then got x-rayed. Waited another 20 minutes and got my results. I had done everything in about 1 and a half- 2 hours (didn't break anything, just really bad bruise and swelling, couldn't move it though).

This was at a very good major hospital (lahey clinic). If you went to a hospital with minimal equipment or one that routinely sends patients out to other hospitals (instead of recieving them, most in vermont aren't very well equipped), then yours may be the norm.
 
update: just got xrays back They say there is no Break BUT i got pain shooting all the way from my ankle to my calf tonight after walking on it all day today. Got to love how the nurse goes Put ice on it and call them back monday
 
I've never broken anything, but I hear that a sprain can hurt worse than a break. I severely sprained my ankle a few years back, and I couldn't walk. It hurt terribly.

Hopefully you get some good pain pills like I did. Ah, sweet Vicodin...
 
[quote name='shrike4242']I know what happened.

slidecage, you dropped an Xbox on your foot. ;)[/QUOTE]

Nah, he doesn't have one, remember? 'Cause he sure couldn't..
 
[quote name='Scorch']Nah, he doesn't have one, remember? 'Cause he sure couldn't..[/QUOTE]

i had one but it broke. Something inside burned up cause when i returned it to best buy they didnt even plug it in the dude who checked it said its burned .. they offered me another xbox or the Credit. I took the credit and got a dS (i had the 2 year warrenty)
 
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