At this stage of her RSD everything is like torture, you have probibly figured that out by now.. the worst thing she can do is nothing, she needs to use her limb as normaly as possible and to bear weight on it. And as you say a heel walk is still bearing weight, get her to do things on her own if she can it will help, and do alot of research yourself, we are our own advocates because alot of the profesionals don't seem to know whats best sometimes.

It is like they have out of date schooling and we have the up to date internet at our fingertips.. I can't tell you how many doctors and such that I have "educated" with more up to date research and medical studys.
Things like "No Ice" how basic is that and why dont they know it?

hugs