Fractured metatarsal; Is it ok to walk on a foot cast?
The reason why he doesn’t want you to walk on it is because it takes about ten days for some callus to start forming around the fracture. He doesn’t want you to put weight on it for fear that the break will displace. If you put your whole body weight on it then it will do that. I would think that after ten days you should be able to walk on it without crutches. I would still favor it and put most of the body weight on the heel and try not to push off on the toes. Sometimes I think the old rubber heels they use to put on the bottom of the cast made since. The weight is placed on the rubber heel and less on the midfoot or forefoot.
