Only a data point, but when my sister tore ligaments in her knee on a dry ski slope in about 1986, the NHS just put the whole lot in plaster and were going to leave it there for 6 weeks, despite there being no broken bones. A family friend who was a physio objected strongly to this, so they went private (as I recall), got the plaster removed, and she had a brace and physio treatment instead, which had her a long way to recovered after 6 weeks instead of stumping around in plaster all that time.
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Date: 2016-03-22 07:38 pm (UTC)