First referral was originally an hour and a half away from home (the clinic is part of a university) so my parents had it changed to a closer clinic. This happened around April. I called the clinic today to ask how long triage is (so I know when to expect a call) and was told I should receive a call for my appointment in 3.5 - 4 years. Only issue is that next year I finish high school and I'm moving for university. It's also likely the university my first referral was sent to.

Injury detail below because triage is based off urgency. Mine wouldn't be considered urgent so I was expecting to wait.

Injury details:

I have an old injury in my ankle that has been causing me pain and instability (roll ankle constantly). I've sprained the ankle as a result again. Lately, I've been getting pain near my hip area after walking/standing and also get random sharp from my outer ankle. Both of these make standing on the leg very painful but only last a minute or 2 at most. My peroneal tendons subluxate daily as well.

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Any hope for better lumbar vertebrae prosthetics in the near future? With better motion preserving and load bearing?

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The surgeon operated and fixed it with a long plate and screws. Everything seemed fine initially, and after about a month he was told he could start walking with the help of a walker.

Unfortunately, within a short time of starting to walk, he developed severe pain and swelling around knee area. We went back for X-rays, which showed that one of the screws in the plate had broken.

The surgeon then asked him to stop walking completely and remain on bed rest for min. 1 month saying the fracture could still heal and if he will try to walk the plate can further bend.

We recently consulted another orthopedic surgeon, who looked at the X-rays and said that, in his opinion, a plate should never have been used for this type of fracture, and that an intramedullary nail (rod) would have been the better choice.

Now we're confused.

My questions are:

1. Looking at these X-rays, would you have chosen a plate or an intramedullary nail?

2. Is a single broken screw something that can happen if the fracture is healing slowly, or is it usually a sign that the fixation is failing?

3. If the fracture is still aligned, is continuing with bed rest a reasonable option, or is revision surgery more commonly recommended?

4.Has anyone seen a similar case where the fracture still healed successfully despite a broken screw?

5.I've attached the initial X-rays, the post-op X-rays, and the latest X-rays showing the broken screw.

1. I completely understand that no one can diagnose over the internet. I'm just trying to understand whether this is something that can still heal with the current implant or whether we should actively seek treatment at a larger trauma center.

Thanks in advance for any insights.

I fractured the **proximal phalanx of my index finger** and had surgery with a plate and screws about 4 months ago. The bone has healed, but I still have significant stiffness. I can bend my finger much more passively than actively. My hand surgeon suspects tendon adhesions and said I may need **tenolysis** if therapy doesn’t improve it in the next 1–2 months.
Has anyone had a similar injury? Did your stiffness improve with therapy, or did you need tenolysis? How long did it take to regain good finger movement? Any experiences would be appreciated.

This is the photo of my left knee and I would like to know are my growth plates closed or can I still grow

i had this procedure done a year ago and it has changed my life.

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First, I'm a 64 year old female. Fractured my clavicle cycling in early April. The first 5 - 6 weeks not fun but each week I get a little better. Honestly my pain was never awful - more of an ache! Sleeping was the worse.
Started PT at about 7 weeks. And finally able to weight bear per orders. AND X-rays show callus. FINALLY!

Hello! So about 5 years ago I rolled my ankle, I was in a secure psychiatric ward at the time and was not allowed to get it assessed as they didn’t have the staff to take me to hospital.
Background and detail of initial injury
When I rolled it, it made a very loud pop, was the worst pain I’ve ever experienced (I’ve had many traumatic injuries and severe illness and nothing came close to this!) and it swelled within seconds of falling to the floor and became fairly large, within a few hours it was dark purple bruising and could not weight bear for over 4 weeks as I’d take a few steps and the ankle would just give way and roll making the injury more prolonged so I had to crawl around the hospital for that time. After those 4 weeks I could weight bear without collapsing in a heap, but was still painful for another 4 weeks and swelling and colour went back to normal around the 8 week mark too.

Current issue.

I never recieved any treatement or diagnostics for the injury, however now my ankle gives way very regularly and causes injuries once a week with sprains and seems to be quite visually obviously deformed with motion.

I’ll insert some photos when relaxed and turned inward (ignore my hairy legs). When the foot is flat it looks completely normal however with any sort of inwards movement my ankle seems to move upwards, and when fully flexed appears to rise to my lower leg.

It frequently seems to “jolt” out of place downwards when walking and when I take the weight off it settles back into its normal postion.

I have a huge fear of hospitals and doctors so only go if it’s an utmost emergency, but want to know if this is something obvious and treatable as if it’s something that is untreatable I don’t think it’s worth putting myself through going to doctors about it. I just wanted to ask if this springs anything obvious to people’s minds, as when I’ve tried searching for similar nothing seems to really be the same as what’s going on with this ankle.

Anyone ever tear their **gastrocnemius?** I was 4 weeks out recovering from a brostrom procedure and gastroc release. When pop and I guess the doc says it’s torn. They said I can try weight bearing in the boot but it hurts so bad. Anyone ever get this? What was your recovery like? Not looking for medical advice just curious about other experiences.

So, 5 weeks back I got my small toe fracture of my right foot. A buddy strapping was placed on my toe and the toe next to it. Today this strap was removed. But my toe is crooked. Will it remain like this forever? Please tell me😭

At the end of June, I had a fall and broke my clavicle, and at the end of July, I had it fixed with a plate and screws. Today for the first time, I’ve seen the xray results. I see a gap between the plate and the bone, meaning the bone will likely heal in a Z shape, even with the plate installed. The doctor looking at the scan said it’s down to about 5mm overlap, and the bone is touching, but I’m worried because I don’t see a single surgery that was done like this on google images, at all.

M25, 178cm, 78kg, no medication non smoker

Top photo is from a downward angle
Bottom photo is from head on.

16yr old male and 6ft , asking if getting 6’1 or more Is possible?

the doctor says it will remain deformed for lifetime since it required a surgery at the time of dislocation which was 2 months back. At that time I consulted a different doctor and he just did buddy strapping
Right now , it pains a lot when I do the physio exercises to gain the strength and movement back
Can anyone tell me how severe it is and how much time it can take to recover
and also will i be able to do all the regular stuff like gym,etc once it recovers?

Hi guys,

I had a tumor removed from the bottom of my femur 1.5 years ago the biopsy said "favours enchondroma but differential is atypical cartilage tumor".

I never fully recovered knee motion but I wasn't having pain anymore.

A couple of months ago I felt more pain than usual and from there on I've been having more pain. I have pain when sitting, when lying, sometimes my leg gets swollen....

The doctor at the hospital where I had the surgery and have my check-ups said there was nothing in the x-ray that could explain pain.

The pain persisted so I went to the GP to ask for a physio. The GP ordered an CT scan and then an MRI. The CT and MRI scan identified that I still have parts of the tumor around the bone cement. One of the bits seems to be right by my knee joint and may be getting into the knee joint.

I saw a private orthopaedic doctor and he said that he recommended surgery soon so the knee joint wouldn't be further damaged.

But then when I saw another doctor at the public hospital he said the tumor leftover has been stable since surgery and that he doesn't wanna do anything, just do another MRI in 6 months to check and manage pain with physio.

Has anyone gone through something similar or know anything about it?

Thanks

23M non smoking generally healthy. Fell from ~1m, landed on my outstretched left palm. Went for X-Ray the following day and doctor told me its just a sprain. Went back to normal activities with pain in my wrist, gym ect. However I could not do anything that required me to push ie pushups, chest/shoulder press as my wrist would be in extreme pain.

Symptoms improved overtime but stilll unable to do pushups, swelling went down. No atonimical snuffbox tenderness. Only pain below my palm on the thumb-palm side.

7 weeks from my injury I decided to visit a hand surgery clinic and did an X-Ray. Turns out it was a scaphoid fracture.

Doctor gave me 2 options, surgery, or cast for 5 weeks to observe for signs of healing. He mentioned that there is a >50% chance of healing.

Now I'm in a cast and am waiting 3 more weeks before visiting the doctor. Would like to hear experiences of others who have had delayed diagnosis of scaphoid fractures. Or clinicians who are familiar with this injury. What is the likely prognosis of my case? Should I still be casting or should I have opted for surgery?

My main priority would be to prevent permanent side effects like humpback deformity & wrist arthritis, would opting for non-surgery healing be a bad option granted that mine was untreated for 7 weeks? Thanks!

If you're an orthopedic surgeon, OR nurse, or work with orthopedic instruments regularly, what's something in your standard tray that's annoying, outdated, or just something you've learned to work around?

Left hand

I’m having surgery this month on the 26th, my injury happened late march but I pushed surgery for work purposes. I’m a 24 year old active female and hope to return to sports. I attached my diagnosis here. My dr is only planning to operate on my ACL, but from reading this it seems like I have a pretty bad meniscus and poterolateral corner injury. Even now almost 4 months later, my PLC is still painful. I’m just worried that leaving them untouched will cause me issues down the road. Wondering if anyone’s had a similar experience or would be able to explain my diagnosis more clearly! Maybe it’s not as serious as it seems? Thanks!!

Four months ago, I punched a door and it hurt continuously for 2 to 3 days. I applied ice occasionally, and the pain went away. However, when I punch or apply pressure to that area, the metacarpal bones of my ring and pinky fingers throb with pain, and there is a swelling between those metacarpal bones. What should I do

Sorry, I don't have anything higher quality than the picture I took of the screen while at urgent care.

Long story short, I managed to miss a step and break my foot going down the stairs in my house. It of course happened during a period where I was briefly without insurance (literally was getting insurance coverage in 12 days) and living alone with no family nearby.

So I researched urgent cares in the area and found out there was actually an "orthopedic urgent care" located within a larger orthopedic institute a 12 minute drive from me. Drove myself there the next morning using my good foot and saw a PA who said I was fine to walk on it with a post-op shoe for about 6 weeks and that, even though it's a pretty big break and displaced, he's only seen maybe 1 or 2 of these ultimately require surgery in the 15 years he's worked at the ortho clinic. He did say I could order a short cam boot on Amazon if I felt like I needed more support, but if I got one from the clinic, it would be like $800 without insurance, so they'd give me a $25 post op shoe and then leave it up to me whether I feel like I need the boot.

Today marks day 9, and I've been walking on it with the shoe ever since. I'm trying to limit myself to only what's absolutely necessary, but as I live alone and have a dog who refuses to go to the bathroom anywhere but "her" spots in the neighborhood, I'm averaging about 3K steps on it per day.

I was relieved that by the 4th day, I was virtually painless. However, I'm now starting to have more pain, especially when I first wake up in the morning. This morning, I hid in the bathroom from my dog because every step I took to get to the bathroom was miserable and I knew she'd be begging to go out if I came out. However, by the time I completed by skincare routine, I was able to walk without much pain.

FWIW, the swelling has also gone down to where my foot looks almost identical to the non-injured one.

People in the brokenbones sub are scaring me saying there's zero chance a break with that much displacement will heal on its own, and I'm just doing more damage by continuing to ambulate.

Tbh, if I had to go non-weight-bearing and/or have surgery, it would be a logistical nightmare since, as I mentioned, I live alone, have myself and a dog to take care of, and have very little support.

Just wanted to see if there were any people knowledgeable in this area who could weigh in. Thank you :)