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Bounce Back from a Broken Ankle After 50!
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Melody Bowers
Three years ago I went outside to check that my spigots were covered before a pending storm was to descend over Nashville, TN. I slipped on black ice, wedged my running shoe between two pavers, and heard my ankle snap. I had never broken a bone, but ...
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The Best Props to Support a Broken Ankle While It Heals
 
Bone-Fortifying Supplements to Help You Heal Faster
 
Do These Floor Exercises While You Are Recovering From A Broken Ankle

The Best Props to Support a Broken Ankle While It Heals

These are the props that I would classify as ESSENTIAL at one or more stages of my post-broken ankle recovery journey. This is not the time to be shy, beg or borrow from friends and family if you must! Get your props in order so you can focus on heal...

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Bone-Fortifying Supplements to Help You Heal Faster

Take a deep breath, now visualize breathing out that breath all the way down through your torso, hips, thighs, knees, calves, ankles, and out your toes. Did you have any breath left by the time you got to your feet? Probably not, because we don't bre... 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Do These Floor Exercises While You Are Recovering From A Broken Ankle

As an active person who has spent all her adult life running, walking, doing yoga, or playing tennis, eight weeks on one leg felt like an impossible challenge physically and mentally. It taught me to take things one moment at a time and to be VERY th...