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12 weeks, minimum, for a clean break like what DeVos appears to have had to heal. And, that's assuming no damage to the blood vessels. If the break involved displacement of the femur head from the pelvis socket, she's looking at a hip replacement in a year's time.
I had a comminuted fracture of my femur, basically snapped the head right off of it and leaving about several pieces loose in the process. The surgeon managed to reattach it with four screws that have to be almost three inches long. The post-surgical Xray is totally cool. My luck was that there was no displacement. So, I healed up fine, in about a six months.
My wife just fractured her tib-fib right below the knee this week.
She has MS and doesn't stand or walk (in a wheelchair) so despite no spinal cord injury she is still technically a paraplegic, and you cannot put a paraplegic in a cast.
So she has THIS:
It's called a Long Beach Splint, invented at the Long Beach VA Hospital years ago.
And she will be in it for another 3-4 months, unfortunately.
If she wasn't an MS-er, she'd have better circulation and it might be two months but due to her crappy leg circulation I am guessing longer.
PS: Her tib fracture was also "communicative" as well. She had a series of X-rays this afternoon and I saw them...crikey it sure looks all kinds of awful.
(I don't know why the pic loads sideways, I didn't shoot it sideways)