Recovering from Achilles surgery is never easy. These helpful tips will guide you to an easier and faster recovery.
- Always keep weight off your foot.
- There are different equipments to help keep weight off your foot. Depending on your need and lifestyle, you can use traditional crutches, or other crutch alternatives, such as the i walk free hands free crutch, knee scooter, seated scooter or wheelchair. They will help keep you mobile, and take the weight off your foot.
- Surround yourself with loved ones.
- Family and friends can offer not only physical help, but emotional support. Being with supportive and loving people brings cheer to the heart and makes for a speedy recovery.
- Get a Cast Cover.
- Cast Covers are a great way to keep you cast dry. You can now take that much needed shower.
- Install Suction Cup Grab Bars.
- Install these bars to rooms and areas of your house where you would need a handhold. Areas like near the toilet, bedroom, stairs or in your living room. Since they are not fixed permanently, you can take them down when your back on both feet..
- A handy tote bag or messenger bag.
- The bag can hold all your important items such as your phone, medicine, water, keys, and keep them near you at all times.
- Install night lights.
- Night lights provide you with added visibility so you don’t accidentally trip or step on something while you’re on your way to the bathroom.
- Get reusable ice pads.
- Make sure to get those with straps so it stays in place. Keep another one in the freezer as a back-up so you always have another ice pack ready to use.
- Leg & Body pillows.
- Try out leg & body pillows as they can help align the spine during rest and sleep, taking the strain off your back and elevating your injured leg so you can rest comfortably.
- Wear Cargo pants.
- These pants have a lot of storage room and they fit over any dressing or cast.
- Prepare laxatives.
- Pain killers (opiates) and less hydration may cause constipation. So watch your diet, drink lots of water, and eat fibrous food to avoid constipation.
Follow these tips and remember to keep a good attitude. Just take it one step at a time.
