Broken legs and ankles heal better if you walk on them within weeks

In 2017 I suffered a nasty fall. I landed on my right arm that was so in pain afterwards I was T-Rexin' that one arm for a few weeks. Too much flexion or extension hurt. Guess what set my arm right again: gym rehab. I was lifting weights then, and as soon as I was able I put the dinkiest weight on the bicep curl machine, 10 lbs or so, and just repped with that arm for a couple of sets. It hurt a bit, but training the arm got my body's repair mechanisms headed right to the site, and after a few sessions of this the arm became quite usable if not 100% pain free. It's pretty much back to normal now.

My brother broke both of his legs in the Army Ranger parachuting school a few years ago. He landed wrong because of weird instructions and heard the crack but after they patted him down and told him he was good he spent 2 weeks trying to walk it off.

Finally the pain got to be too much and they took him in for x-rays. Needed screws all throughout his legs and 2 months to heal.

Now he's fine, goes out for daily runs, still in the military (but failed the Ranger class because he couldn't finish the jump training) and is mostly upset about not being a ranger.

Yeah I hurt my arm, had surgery, and couldn't wait to use it.. Now its fuct again lol

"Use it or loose it"

Oh this is so bad:

> In the 19th century German surgeon and anatomist Julius Wolff recognized that healthy bones adapt and change in response to the load placed on them. That is why everyone—but especially women, who are more susceptible than men to osteoporosis—should lift weights as they age

No, weight lifting won't improve bone density, it's running that will

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