re: How to tell if you've broken a bone in your leg or it's just bruised

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Front right of my left leg

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Highly doubt it's a break. Those are excrutiating though. I've got a spot on my right shin that still bothers me, and it's been 14 years since I hit it on a metal folding chair while running full speed during a basketball drill.

An XRay

Please dont go to the ER, go to an urgent care. ERs are full of enough bullshite already

An x-ray, and someone who knows how to read it.

Use a tuning fork and if it's fractured the vibrations will cause terrible pains.

I fractured under my knee between my growth plate and tibia, and continued jogging class at LSU and cutting grass every afternoon for a week and a half. I could feel it slightly grinding, and I couldn't walk at the end of each day. Finally went to the hospital to get X-rays and CT scans, and on the way out of the parking lot, the radiologist called and told me that my leg was fricked up. He was amazed that I was walking around, and told me I needed to be in a cast.

So yes, you can both run and cut grass with a fractured leg. You just have to be tough as nails and dumb as a box of rocks

as the Saint's medical staff

I broke my leg a few months ago and there was little doubt. No weight at all and instant pain.
Not a doc but if you can do what you say you can, it doesn't sound broken.

Take a salt tablet and visit a ND.

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I can walk and even do the elliptical on it.

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It's not broken. I had a hairline fracture in my leg once and couldn't even think about putting weight on it.