How to Learn to Walk in a Body Cast

A young child who breaks a femur will wear a body cast fitted on half of his or her body for about eight weeks. The cast starts in the middle of the waist and goes to the ankle of the broken leg and almost to the knee of the other leg. The legs are in a bent and spread position. It looks uncomfortable and seems like an impossible position for being able to walk. However, children tend to be resilient and creative. After the initial pain ceases from the break in two or three weeks they get moving.

Instructions

Difficulty: Challenging

Things You’ll Need:

• A child in a body cast
• Furniture to hold onto
• a determined attitude

1. Begin with combat crawling in your body cast across clean floors after a couple of weeks when the pain has started to abate from the broken femur. This is when you use your arms and elbows to drag your body across an area.
2. Learn to pull yourself up to a standing position while holding onto furniture, walls, or other stable objects.
3. Nick walking assisted Practice walking around while holding onto furniture, walls, a wheelchair, or a cart.
4. Nick walking alone Finally, after much practice walk all by yourself.

Tips & Warnings

• Remember that an infant has success and failures in learning to walk but eventually masters the ability, so will you.
• Don't give up!
• Don't try force someone with a new break who is still in a lot of pain and taking medication to do this.
• Everyone who has accomplished a goal has done it in his or her own timing, so don't push.