Years & years ago, I did some tendons in in my foot. Didn't rupture them, but I stretched them to the point of pinging & was in hospital for several days, had leg in support bandages and was on sticks for three months.
I am *so glad* I did lots of exercises flexing & rotating my foot once I was out of main heavy banaging state and at point of getting more mobile. To this day I have less mobility in it than my other foot, but compared to some who didn't do the rotating & flexing exercises as much as I did I have far, far more mobilty.
When Wafflycat Minor broke his shoulderblade, once out of hospital I had him off to a sports' physio within a week. Darned good job too. When I took Wafflycat Minor along for his six week check, the doc was both surprised and impressed at the range of motion Wafflycat Minor had. He was fully expecting Wafflycat Minor to have a very limited range of movement and indeed Wafflycat Minor would have had a very limited range of movement if he had done as the doc initially told him to, which was total immobility. Wafflycat Minor now has a full range of movement restored and no residual pain.
Another example is that of a very experienced cyclist we know (RAAM winner) who broke his collarbone badly (required surgery). Again, Doc told him not to move it, but he took the advice of a sports' physio and was exercising from early on how the physio told him to. Result: that same was with Wafflycat Minor - amazed docs at six week follow up as to the range of movements the person could do.
As a physio friend told me many years ago - docs are very good at mending breaks in bones and the like but they are not so good at knowing & understanding how the overall thing works and what needs to be done to keep it moving once the break has been joined back together again. I think she has a point.
So once Mr Wafflycat has been to the doc tomorrow, dependent upon the outcome of that, he will have an appointment made at the local sports' physio who knows her stuff.
