Getting Back To Running After A Walking Boot

Are you a runner and you are currently stuck in a boot or maybe you've been out of the boot for a little bit, but either way, you went from boot and now you wanna know how you're going to get back to running. That is the big million dollar question. How do I go from a walking boot to running?
Well, this video is going to be perfect for you. I help athletes all the time get from their surgery back to the activities that they love. We're going to talk about a lot of the anxieties and the things that go along with the surgery, how to heal and what normal healing is, then what the steps are to get you from the first part of healing where your bone or your ligament is getting healed up by your body all the way back to running. All right, so let's get started.
**First, Walking boots are amazing for many, many things. Not comfort, not style. Those are not what they're wonderful for. They are wonderful at helping you off weight your bone or your ligaments to allow them time to heal. It makes it so your muscles do not have to do a whole lot of work so they're not pulling out a bone in case of a fracture. They are allowing that ligament, whether it was surgically repaired or it was overstretched and it just needed time to shrink up and to be stable again.
So that's what those walking boots are for. So many times when you're coming out of a walking boot, you've been dealing with an orthopedic surgeon and they will send you home with maybe some exercises you can do on a sheet of paper or some general guidelines on what you should and shouldn't do. #momlifts #momliftingweights #momliftsthebestlift #momliftstoo #momlift
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Then the day comes where they tell you, you get to get out of that boot. And you're like, but what does that really mean? Do I just get to throw the boot away? Do I have to keep it? Do I wear it? Some of the time, not all the time. For some people they don't really get a whole lot of answers from the orthopedic surgeon, and that's not to pick on anybody, but that just seems to be what I deal with, is that they don't give very specific answers to those questions. So they're handed this sheet of paper and they're told that they can resume normal activities and they can go about their day. When you walk out, you're so excited that they told you you can let go of that boot. You completely forgot to ask All of those questions. That happens to all of us.
So now you're stuck at your house by yourself trying to figure out how you get back to running because the moment they told you that you could get out of that boot, you had images of walking in the park, getting back to your light jogging, just going about how you were before you got stuck in that boot.
Then the reality strikes and you take the boot off and you stand and you're like, holy biscuits. It's uncomfortable to stand, it's really uncomfortable to walk. Why on earth do I have a limp? Why does my foot swell all the time? How much pain is okay? He told me I could walk. How far can I actually walk? Is it just around my house? Is it at the park? Do I have to do it on the treadmill? I have all these questions and I have no idea where to get these answers.
The internet is just overloaded with information, hence my video. Anyway it's very confusing and when you've come out of a walking boot and everything is healed as far as the surgeon's concerned you get a surgeon or orthopedic surgeon whether you had a surgery or you didn't, just for clarification.
Oftentimes when you're getting a boot, you are dealing with some form of orthopedic person and they've released you. What that means is that the tissue that was damaged, whether that was your bone, a ligament, whether you had screws put in it, whatever the reason for the walking boot, all of that has been resolved.
So if you aren't told to go someplace else, a lot of people get very confused. Like you're not suggested to go to a specialist, right? Then you get very confused as to what do you do first to make your ankle better because it's stiff, it still swells, it's still uncomfortable, it's not the original ankle I had before I had the injury. This is still uncomfortable and still to a certain point, injured, right?
As far as we're thinking because not being injured is being able to do all the things that we want to do. That is where seeing a specialist like myself is important. Whether the orthopedic surgeon or the orthopedics doctor suggested that or not, it is by far easier to navigate this whole process with somebody in your corner, somebody who can go over and explain to you.
The reason that you have pain in the morning is because you're not moving during the whole night. We naturally collect fluid throughout the evening. By not moving

[@riheimsmith9954]

I had a 1.0 part removel of ankle and heel back in 2013

[@drmollymcdonald]

@riheimsmith9954 that sounds painful. I hope you are doing better now.