If you break your shin bone would you have a cast that bends at the knee or all the way up?

Question: Say you broke your tibia, would you have a cast that goes all the way up your leg or bends at the knee so you could sit in a chair?

Answers:
It depends on the break, but in order to effectively stabilize a bone you generally have to stabilize the joint above and below the break.

Other Answers:
No. I broke my tib, fib and shattered my ankle three years ago. In surgery for 4 hours getting it all put back together. I now have a nice Titanium plate in my leg as well as bolts that hold my ankle together. I was out of commission for like 4 months and then another 6 months of rehab but the cast I had was removable and was able to take it off at night as well as when I took what you might say was a shower. My leg, and ankle are messed up for good, but my cast was from my foot to just below my knee.

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Depends on where on the tibia thebreak actually is and what type of fracture (stress fractures are very often fully casted becaus ef the possibility it could lead to a spiral fracture if further stressed). Low tibial fractures are usually a walking cast these days. usually it will be a cast that goes past your knee. to imobilize the joint above the break

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