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A man fractured his arm at work and the emergency room put a cast on and told him to follow-up in the orthopedic clinic. For seven weeks he continued to follow up as instructed and when the doctors removed the cast his arm looked like a roller coaster.

He asked the doctor who removed the cast “Why does my arm look like that?” The doctor replied that with a little massage and physical therapy it would be back to normal in no time.

This simply made no sense to the patient.

He went to an orthopedic surgeon and brought copies of his x-rays with him. The orthopedic surgeon determined that the reason the patient’s arm looked so bizarre was because the patient’s arm was never properly set and reduced to begin with. When a bone is broken, it is often necessary to put the pieces of the bone back together into correct alignment and positioning. This is known as “reducing the fracture.”

If the doctors are able to do it without surgery, this is known as closed reduction. If proper alignment cannot be done through manipulation and traction of the two bones, then the patient must be taken to the operating room to perform surgery to get the bones into proper alignment and positioning. If surgery is needed, it is necessary to use hardware, usually titanium screws, pins, wires and rods to hold the bone fragments in place.

The orthopedic surgeon had the difficult task of telling the patient that in order to fix the problem, he now needed to re-break the bone and would require surgery to properly position the bones together and they would be connected with titanium rods and screws. The patient would now have a significant surgical scar and would likely suffer decreased range of motion and limitation of use of his arm.
If the doctors had set the bone correctly, the patient would never have needed corrective surgery with hardware.

Watch the video to learn more.

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