Problem: Article: It can take a long time to heal from a heel fracture. Your recovery time will depend on a lot of factors, including your overall health, the severity of the fracture, and the treatment you received. Work with your doctor to determine when you can safely begin rehabilitation, and ask for an estimate of how long it will be before you can go back to your regular activities. Depending on your condition, you may be able to start working on physical therapy and other rehabilitation activities within the first week after treatment. If your fracture was relatively minor, it will probably be around 3-4 months before you can return to your normal activities. For a more severe or complicated fracture, your recovery time may be 1 or 2 years. Unfortunately, many heel fractures never heal completely. You may experience some permanent loss of function in your foot and ankle. Talk to your doctor or a physical therapist about what to expect. Moving your foot and ankle early in the healing process may help you recover faster and prevent some loss of motion. Ask your doctor when you should begin doing simple foot and ankle exercises and how often to do them. You may need to wait until your pain allows movement or until any surgical wounds have healed. Early exercises may include: Ankle pumps. Sit or lie down with your leg extended straight out in front of you. Point your toes away from you, then pull them back toward you. Alphabets. Point the toes of your injured foot and pretend you are using them to write the alphabet. Figure 8s. Point your toes and move your foot in a figure 8 shape. Inversion and eversion. Place your foot flat on the floor and roll it from side to side so that the sole faces first inward, then outward. Ask your doctor to recommend a physical therapist who has experience treating foot injuries. Physical therapy is essential for recovering from the injury and maintaining the health of your heel in the future. Physical therapy exercises can help restore strength and function in your foot and ankle, which is an important part of the healing process. In addition to exercises, your therapy program may include: Massage to promote healing and prevent stiffness in the injured area. Regular evaluation of your strength and range of motion throughout the healing process. Low-impact full-body exercises (e.g., swimming) to keep the rest of you in shape while your foot is healing. Gait training as you begin to walk again. Help with learning to use assistive devices (such as crutches or a walker) and orthotic devices (such as braces or special shoe inserts). Once you begin walking again, you'll need to be very careful not to aggravate your injury or damage any surgically implanted hardware. Work closely with your doctor and physical therapist to determine how soon you can start putting weight on your foot and what kinds of weight-bearing activities are safe. Your doctor or therapist will give you instructions for how to use devices such as crutches, a walker, or a special shoe to minimize the load on your foot. Once you're ready to start walking on your own, you'll need to increase the amount of weight you put on your foot gradually. For example, you might increase the load by 20 pounds (9.1kg) every 2-3 days until you are putting your full weight on your foot again. Healing is a complicated process, and it will happen faster if you take proper care of your entire body. While you're recovering, make sure to eat well, get plenty of good-quality sleep, and get physical activity as recommended by your doctor and physical therapist. If you have a medical condition that might affect your healing process, such as diabetes, work with your doctor to make sure it is well-managed during and after your recovery period. If you smoke, talk to your doctor about how to quit. Smoking can slow down the healing process.
Summary: Ask your doctor about your recovery timeframe. Start moving your foot and ankle as soon as your doctor says it's safe. Work with a physical therapist to build your strength and range of motion. Follow your doctor or therapist's instructions for walking on your injured foot. Care for your overall health while the injury heals.

Problem: Article: Financial newspapers are the traditional way to read up on the movements of stocks on the market. These may have been superseded by the more immediately updated information on the internet, but they can still provide a useful guide when researching stocks. The presentation may vary, but in general a stock quote chart should have around twelve columns. The name of the stock will often be shortened version of the name of the company. One column will show the ticker name for each stock. The first two columns on the chart should be labelled "52W Low" and "52W High," or something similar. The figures in these columns record the highest and lowest price at which the stock been traded in the last 52 weeks, or a year. This will be kept up-to-date, but in general will not include the trading from the day before. This information gives you a useful picture of the longer term price history of a stock. It can indicate a general pattern or trend, but should be supplemented by further research. The price to earnings ratio is an important piece of information that you can get from the chart. The column for this will typically be headed something like P/E, or P/E Ratio. This is a ratio used for valuing companies by measuring current share price in relation to per-share earnings. It is sometimes known as a multiple. Basically, this ratio indicates how many dollars an investor must invest in company to receive a dollar return. If a stock had a P/E or multiple of 20, it would indicate that investors would be willing to pay $20 for $1 of current earnings. In a chart, the P/E is determined by dividing the current stock price, by the earnings per share from the previous four financial quarters. The daily information of the stock will tell you the volume traded the previous day, the starting and closing price, along with the net change. The chart will also show you the highest and lowest prices at which the stock was traded on the previous day. If the stock closed either up or down by more than 5%, that stock will be shown as bold in the chart. This is an easy way to pick up the stocks that made the biggest moves, up or down, in the previous day's trading. Keep in mind that, even after the markets close, stock prices continue to fluctuate. This is because shares of stock are traded in other markets around the world 24/7.
Summary:
Identify the stock. Note the long term price changes. Check the price/earnings ratio. Read the daily statistics.