What is it with broken toes?

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Did they rec PT once you can get out of the shoe and flex the foot? I broke pinky several years ago. 10 wks with foot immobilized. Once for the thumbs up to begin regular activity, the doc didn’t mention pt. I went about regular athletic and life stuff. Come winter, I started having upstream problems (knee). Saw a physiatrist who dx’ed issues from leg atrophy from the immobilization 9 months prior. It was visually noticeable once pointed out to me. PT set me straight.

Thanks, I'll be watching for that. I've seen exercises online. Seems like one doc thought I'd been walking around this whole time, and should walk on it, in the post-op shoe or a regular shoe if I can get into one. Toe doesn't like me standing unweighted for more than a few minutes. It becomes painful and swells. Other doc says minimum activity, stay home for 4 more weeks. His main concern seems to be I'll reinjure it. I'm leaning in that direction. Dr. Google says these two docs are on opposite ends of the activity spectrum, with first the extreme one. I see that more activity lessens the atrophy risk.

It's the farthest extremity from your core and there's is barely any tissue around that bone so they can be real slow to heal not to mention they are real easy to continue to re-injure during the process. I swear it's like a broken tow is a magnet for table and chair legs. At 48 years old I don't expect any broken bones to be put on the fast track for healing. The body just doesn't do that anymore.

Thanks. I'm a few years older, and have moved most of the chair legs now. And I'm almost always buddy taped and wearing the post-op shoe. Before breaking one, my toes also seemed magnetic - guess I missed the signal to up my shoe game and drop the sandals and barefooting.