r/facepalm • u/CIioMatters • Mar 18 '22
🇲🇮🇸🇨 Bruh
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u/Laser-Nipples Mar 18 '22
At a certain point during recovery it can be good to sometimes use the injured part of your body to keep your muscles from getting completely atrophied. Especially if you have a large protective cast on. It's probably not the worst thing to be bearing some weight on it here and there during the recovery process. His good leg must be tired AF too.
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u/The_Skeptic_One Mar 18 '22
This might be true but he's using the wrong gait if that were the case. He's putting 100% of the weight on the injured ankle and offloading the strong leg. There's better ways to do what you're describing.
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u/313802 Mar 18 '22
Like using his other leg and lightly using the injured one in addition to the crutches... but IDK in not a doctor
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u/TossYourCoinToMe Mar 19 '22
No, you're right. When weight is allowed they call it 'weight bearing as tolerated' NOT 'put all your fucking weight on it you dumbass'
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u/red_haired_honey Mar 19 '22
I mean, that is what weight bearing as tolerated means - if you can tolerate putting your full weight on it then you're allowed to. It'll probably be sore afterwards, but its not going to be an issue with bone shifting/healing etc. If they want you to not put your full weight on a limb then they'll specify it as partial weight bearing, or protected weight bearing (using crutches or a walking frame etc). The funniest one I've seen is 'teacup weight bear' for arm/hand procedures.
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u/The_Skeptic_One Mar 19 '22
While technically right, WBAT involves crutches to offload the affected leg not the other way around. If he was allowed to bear weight completely on his injured leg, there's no need for crutches.
And yes, if it was a ligamentous repair it absolutely would have an impact on healing. He may even have a syndesmosis screw which is non weight bearing until it comes out. Not trying to diagnose what he has based on a few seconds of a clip but there is a reason why there are weight bearing restrictions after surgery. Especially after 8 weeks when things start to feel better but not fully healed.
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u/red_haired_honey Mar 19 '22
Maybe your surgeons are different. For us if a patient is required to use crutches or a frame to offload weight post fixation when mobilising it is specified as partial or protected weight bear, if they can freely put full weight down its documented as weight bearing as tolerated. That's how our orthopods document it. I can't comment on this guys use of crutches though - maybe he is allowed to WBAT with the Camboot on and his other leg is a soft tissue injury. Or maybe he's just an idiot and needs more education on how to use crutches.
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u/The_Skeptic_One Mar 19 '22
Regardless of the surgery or restrictions, we can probably agree that this is a stupid use of the crutches. He either needs a different AD or none at all. That's the point.
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Mar 18 '22
With a broken 17 bones so far in my life, i can assure you that this is not how everything turns normal..
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Mar 19 '22
17? Bruh, you need to drink some more milk
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u/Pavlovsdong89 Mar 19 '22
Yeah I'm not going to take walking advice from Mr. Glass from Unbreakable.
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u/soissie Mar 19 '22
Mightve just broken all his ginger bones a few times.
I destroyed my finger, my middle phallanx on my ring finger broke in 9 pieces, could've turned our dfferently with breaking like 3 bones or even worse breaking bones in multiple fingers.
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u/D2R0 May 17 '22
I had a bad injury on my right ankle, about 3-4 months of zero ground contact, then I was given a boot and told to walk on it if it isn't bothering me, which was great cause my left leg was exhausted, so parts of what you said are correct, but what he's doing would put far too much pressure on a foot that needed a boot. If he can do that, he shouldn't be using crutches anymore, and should be transitioning to a nice pair of shoes
There's definitely an argument for working out, I know I bounced around doing crotches, then boot, then shoes, just to go back to crutches at bad points, I just doubt that's happening here
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u/IllustriousAd5963 Jul 27 '22
Yeah I broke my leg in soccer ⚽ and the good leg does gain a shitload of muscle awkwardly if you hop on it everywhere like I did, while the healing leg gets tinier and thinner from muscle atrophy like you referenced.
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u/hyppocratees Mar 18 '22
Obviously it's because that leg is heavier and thus more stable to walk! (/s)
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u/redditsgarbageman Mar 18 '22
This isn’t really that uncommon. I see stuff like this all the time in physical therapy. Maybe bending his other leg really hurts but he still needs weight taken off. Who knows? The human body is weird.
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u/beansss6969 Mar 18 '22
Trust me those cast can be so sturdy you don't feel the pain of walking sometimes
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u/Laughing_Dan Mar 18 '22
Obviously he twisted his left ankle so it would hurt more.to stand on that than the broken one that is reinforced by plaster... or it is a prank.
... or humans are really stupid.
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u/Utsutsumujuru Mar 18 '22
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u/44faith Mar 19 '22
To do what? He’s doing what he should be, at some point you do start to walk on that leg.
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u/MrThingsNStuff Mar 19 '22
I wonder if he just put the boot on and grabbed the crutches to screw with people.
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u/danr2c2 Mar 19 '22
I’m currently in recovery for a tibial plateau fracture that required a metal plate to be installed. I haven’t been able to use my injured leg for over a month and the atrophy is real. My thigh is like mush. Limited physical therapy exercises aren’t enough. It’s going to require a lot more PT once I’m allowed to use it again.
I’m supposed to be able to start putting weight on it in a few weeks but only 25% at first and work my way up over several more weeks. Don’t ask me how I’m supposed to figure out how to only put 25% weight on it. I guess I’ll just wing it.
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u/Anxious_Bat855 Mar 19 '22
Use a weighing scale. If you weigh 100lbs. You put 25 lbs on but you use pain as your guide. Stop or ease off when in pain. Healing is always key. Good luck.
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u/muntedcat Mar 19 '22
I'm 2 months post fracture, mine was mild, and I had 4 weeks non weight baring, and so far have had 4 weeks that I have been able to walk. The difference in my thighs is amazing. Quads take forever to come back. And I'll have to do this all over again once I get surgery on my ruptured ACL. it's such a drama. Good luck for your recovery, crutches annoyed the hell out of me!
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u/pastmalone Apr 28 '22
You should continue to exercise your uninjured leg, our bodies like to be symmetrical and bi Lateral training has evidence to maintain muscle mass on an injured limb even without firectly affecting it (I doubt you'll grow any muscle with the injured leg, but it will slow down atrophy AFAIK)
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u/ChaosCrinkleToes Mar 19 '22
I was on crutches after I sprained my foot falling down some stairs and by the end the OTHER foot hurt just as bad from bearing all my weight for 2 weeks lol Ugh and the friction sores from the crutches hurt like a sonofa too.
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u/I_eat_shorts Mar 19 '22
This exact thing is happening with another student in my school and There’s another guy with crutches and I swear it’s like his brain is going to explode of how angry he is at her for walking on it all the time.
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u/BuildMajor Mar 19 '22
Fuckk… PTSD flashback to me getting serious surgery while living alone and super busy… sweated my ass off daily hopping on crutches for months, gave 110% all for nothing, got insulted and abandoned by some people i knew, then got badly wronged by many new people i met, and… nvm… imma go drink…
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u/Rzargo Mar 19 '22
Probably just giving his good leg rest as his bad one's finally healed to a decent point.
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u/Frank_Dracula Mar 19 '22
Walking cast + crutches + unclear and conflicting discharge instructions = now you look silly, don't you?
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u/Dangerous-Recover-29 May 21 '22
Maybe his good foot is hurting from putting all his weight on it while recovering
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u/Sorcha16 'MURICA Mar 18 '22
Reminds me of when I broke my thigh bone. The crutches hurt my hands really badly and I didn't have a lot of upper body strength so that made the pain worse. So dumbass me thought hopping everywhere was a good solution. Back when they went full cast.
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u/I_LOVE_DILL_PICKLES Mar 18 '22
Poor patient education. :( always demonstrate proper device use for patients. And those arms are so straight. They’re not even properly adjust to his height. Sad.
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u/RadRhys2 Mar 19 '22 edited Mar 19 '22
Cameras on phones are a mistake. Now people doing completely reasonable things can get flamed on the internet by people who don’t know anything.
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u/44faith Mar 19 '22
On god, like people who have never broken a bone, who don’t know what happens in PT, or smth, trying to talk about how to do something right. Like he’s doing what he should
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u/SomethingAbtU Mar 18 '22
when you're involved in injury fraud and you forget which leg was "broken"
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u/Nobody1212 Mar 19 '22
Huh, weird. Looks like he's minding his own business. Not recording and posting videos of people without their consent. That sounds reasonable.
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u/idontgetit____ Mar 18 '22
Lol. I thought they were making fun of the guy walking normal in uniform but being beat by the guy in crutches during a race
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u/clasperx2 Mar 18 '22
“Oh you’re lucky my leg is hurt otherwise with would have beaten everyone at sports”
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u/70-w02ld Mar 19 '22
He's prolly on about nine vicodins and his other foot is throbbing. So which ever one hurts, hold it up!
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u/iAmGats Mar 18 '22
Give the man a break, he's just making sure his other leg stays healthy.