What does a broken foot feel like?

Bone fracture is medically called microcrack fracture, which means that the fracture is not particularly serious, but it has already occurred. If a fracture occurs on the instep, it will often cause severe pain and edema, which is mainly caused by blow or impact. At this time, it will not only cause some local symptoms, but more serious ones may also cause some systemic symptoms, such as increased body temperature, etc. This may be due to infection.

What does a broken foot feel like?

1. Systemic manifestations:

Fever symptoms: The body temperature is generally normal after a bone fracture. For fractures with large amounts of bleeding, the body temperature will rise slightly when the hematoma is absorbed, but it generally does not exceed 38°C. When the body temperature rises in open fractures, the possibility of infection should be considered.

2. Local manifestations:

The common symptoms of bone fractures are local pain, swelling, and functional impairment. When a bone is broken, blood vessels in the bone marrow, periosteum and surrounding tissues rupture and bleed, forming a hematoma at the fracture site. Edema caused by soft tissue injury causes severe swelling of the affected limb, and even tension blisters and subcutaneous ecchymosis may appear. Due to the decomposition of hemoglobin, the lesions may appear purple, cyan or yellow. Severe pain occurs at the fracture site, especially when the affected limb is moved. Local swelling and pain limit the movement of the affected limb. If it is a complete fracture, the injured limb may completely lose its movement function.

Treatment recovery

Western medicine treatment methods generally use plaster fixation or surgery to fix the patient with steel plates, steel wires, intramedullary nails, etc., and then use some anti-inflammatory, analgesic, blood-activating and blood-stasis-removing drugs, and then let the patient go home to rest or exercise. This treatment is very slow. The fastest is 3 months, and the slowest is half a year or a year. No matter what kind of tissue is damaged, the principle of treatment is to let the damaged tissue grow quickly to heal. The treatment is not anti-inflammatory, analgesic, blood-activating and resting, but to let it grow quickly. Only by letting the broken bone grow and heal in a short time can it be treated.

Traditional Chinese Medicine treatment methods: Traditional Chinese Medicine practitioners who specialize in treating bone trauma can use drugs to help damaged tissues grow quickly in a short period of time. If medication is used in the early stages of fractures, the pain can be basically eliminated in about 7 days, and you can walk slowly on the ground in 12 to 15 days. You can move freely in about 25 days and basically recover. Common traditional Chinese medicine ointments include bone-setting and blood-activating ointments. Auxiliary exercise therapy: The ancients said, "It takes a hundred days to heal a broken bone." This is a seven-character sentence that summarizes the time. A minor sprain can be recovered in a week. However, depending on the condition of the ankle fracture and the degree of edema, it will take about 45 days to completely reduce the swelling! It will take at least 3 to 4 months to walk without pain in the ankle joint! But these are all conceptual knowledge. The recovery time of an ankle fracture needs to be adjusted with the help of rehabilitation functional training. Rehabilitation functional training can shorten the recovery period, and the effect is obvious and will not cause sequelae. It is one of the commonly used treatment methods in clinical practice.

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