Medically reviewed by Theresa Marko, PT There are three main bones in the leg. The femur is the long bone in your thigh that connects your hip to your knee; it’s also your body's longest and strongest ...

But there seemed to be one obvious exception: if the patient has a broken leg — or, worse, two broken legs — should he not stay in a cast and flat on his back for weeks?

Twenty years ago my husband, Mark, broke his left ankle and was in a cast and on ... It turns out the standard advice to stay off a broken leg bone for at least six weeks is based less on ...