Can you soak your feet when you have a broken foot?

The patient can soak his feet after a broken foot, but there is a time limit, you need to wait until 48-72 hours after the injury before you can soak your feet. The main purpose of foot soaking is to promote local blood circulation, promote the absorption of local blood accumulation, thereby effectively improving the patient’s local swelling and pain symptoms, and promote the rapid recovery of foot sprains. Usually you can put peppercorns and salt in hot water to soak your feet, and you can also use elongation grass, boneset grass, safflower, angelica, peach kernel, licorice boiled for fumigation. In addition to foot soak, just after the injury need to actively carry out cold compresses, can reduce bleeding, reduce swelling, and need to protect the injured limb braking, must not go down to the ground too soon, otherwise it will aggravate the injury. Early need to elevate the affected limb, higher than the heart, which is more conducive to promote venous return, conducive to swelling, local can also be used externally to activate blood circulation and eliminate blood stasis cream.