When you break a bone either the bone is really broken or not seriously broken and it depends on the conditions of the bone. What happens is that nowadays you just go to the hospital and they just put a cast. But before we had hospitals they just tried to tuff it out. It was really hard for them to walk. Archaeologists have recently found a bone but it was in a weird shape it was like in a lightning bolt. What happened was it was a broken bone from 2, 000 years ago. What happened is that he broke his leg and left it like that so he probably lived two more years which is a real surprise. See when you break a bone the first thing to do is to reform it will grow new bone to connect which is cool. That’s why doctors put a metal bar in your leg then they put a cast on it. That’s what happens when you break your leg.