Ideas for some low-impact very effective exercises for someone who has had extensive foot surgery?

Question

My fiance's heel was shattered about 2 years ago in an accident. He walks with a limp and often has minor achy pain in his foot. The doctor says he has post traumatic arthritis, meaning he has no cartilege and bone is grinding on bone, causing the pain. He walks with a limp and is fine except he can't run or jump. Does anyone have ideas for low-impact exercises? I know he needs physical therapy, but we cant afford that seeing as how we have about 100k in medical bills... please help! I dont want him to use this as an excuse to let himself go.

Answer 1

Maybe he could try swimming and/or aquatic exercises. It is possible to get a REALLY good workout and never inflict any real force on the heel itself.

Answer 2

i'd merely bypass on your well being care service, have them do yet another try and a blood try. merely because you've decrease decrease back discomfort doesnt advise your pregnant, neither does headache or heartburn.. I easily have all those time-honored.. I run a daycare center and performance a baby, Im continuously bending over and picking up youthful ones, listening to screaming and eating on the run... and Im no longer pregnant.. All indicators of being pregnant are diverse for all of us, some get one or 2, some get em all, a number of wierd ones and some dont get any.. merely be sensible bypass on your well being care service.

Answer 3

Tell him to go swimming that is a low impact as you can get and still move the foot, with out putting any more stress on it. Plus it should feel good to him.

Good luck!

Answer 4

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certainly there are books that will tellyou the sorts of theraopy that your husband needs and if you took two days you could find them and know what they are qnd another two days you could learn them and learn how to helphim do them. You migfht hire a therpist to sit down wth you once and show you how to do them too. Then do them alone on you rown. Or hire a kid in the neighborhood who ios mature and responsible ( there aare many especilly eight and ten year old kios who would help. To help him do them. Some times you need tht sort of motivation. but dothem with out the cost of the therapist then in eight weeks or ten hire the therapist again to lket you know how in their opinion he is doing of course if he does it right he will probably know.
Do you understndthe point here? If not let me know email me so we can talk.
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There are great ways to deal with pain other than the ways doctors knowof or woudl recomend.
one way to have low impqct excersizes is to keep the feet off of the floor and not ahve any impacts. Also sitting down rather than standing up excersize the feet. move them gently twist them get full motion.
YOu are right they say if you do not use it you can lose it.

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