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usual healing time is 6 weeks. Gives a chance for the new bone to be layed down across the fracture. No repair is as strong as the original integrity of the bone or tissue. One of the risks is a re-fracture, i.e., having to restart the healing process. The reason they are casted/splinted it to reming the body to rest the area to allow spontaneous healing. If you 'promise' not to use the joint, stress the area, then you don't need a splint, etc. Unfortunately, not many of us could remember that 24/7, hence the splint/cast.
Rest it, son't stress it and try for 100% return in 6 weeks.
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'Revel in action, translate perceptions into instant judgements, and these into actions that are irrevocable, monumentous and dreadful - all this with lightning speed, in conditions of great stress and in an environment of high tension:what is expected of "us" is the impossible, yet we deliver just that.
(adapted from: Sherwin B. Nuland, MD, surgeon and author: The Wisdom of the Body, 1997 )
Education is the anti-ignorance we all need to better treat our patients. ss, 2008.
The blade is so sharp that the incision is perfect. They don't realize they've been cut until they're out of the fight: A Surgeon Warrior. I use a knife to defend life and to save it. ss (aka traumadoc)
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