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Injuries, Fractures and Burns

This forum is dedicated to the wide range of injuries, fractures and burns people can encounter — surface, penetrating, electrical, inhalation injuries, bons and skull fractures, and burns and scalds. Ask questions, look for information, and talk about symptoms and treatment.

Systematization of the burns

We have a 4 years old son who just burnt his arm while inspecting the oven, as he explained it to us. But the doctor said that in the systematization of the burns, he has the lightest one that belongs to a first degree and that he should be fine. What are other burn degrees?

by User avatar seamus26180128

hip fracture sub trochanteric

please could you help me - am a 42 year old male and i fell and sustained the above fracture which i have a medullary nail and screw to hip. i need to know how long before i will be able to run and lead a normal life, at the moment i am walking with limited weight to my affected leg - though i...

by User avatar normy04102943

Bruises after 3 years

I was in a car accident about 3 years ago and I wasn't wearing my seatbelt, yes I know stupid me. Well, my shins ended up hitting the underpart of the passenger side seat (I was in the back) and I got some really nasty bruises from it on both of my shins. I don't have any pain when I'm walking or...

by User avatar jackie15406211200

do small compression fractures heal?

was x-rayed tuesday. doctor found a small compression fracture at t-6. i'm on vicodin and soma. do these injuries heal? besides dno't bend forward at the waist, don't lift anything over 5 pounds and don't exercise what else can i do to encourage healing?

by User avatar katapuzi

lisfranc - bone spur removal

Has anyone ever had bone spurs removed following some time after having a lisfranc dislocation? I had a 5 metatarsal dislocation in 2001 and am having some irritation and spurring on the dorsal surface of my foot. This sadly is most troublesome on the lateral side. I was thinking of having the...

by User avatar Guest

Damaged blood vessels in a sternum fracture

Answered by a doctor

I am 45 years old and I have been in a car crash three weeks ago. My head is fine but my sternum is not. Moreover I had a problem with the damaged blood vessels because of the sternum fracture. Luckily, no major artery was damaged, only those in the rib cage and the one in the pec muscles. I just...

by User avatar hoebart200880129

Head injury, big swelling

Hit my head a couple days ago it stopped bleeding that night but was really swollen, the swelling has gone down but I still have blood slowly filling the back of one nostril but it's not too much blood every hour or so, again it was 2 days ago I've slept fine both nights just a lot of pain where my...

by User avatar Guest

Aftercare of burns

My son was very badly burnt just over a year ago, and spent 6 weeks in the burns unit in Belfast. He still experiences a lot of pain, and I wonder how long this will continue, or will it gradually deminish. He had several grafts, and now wears a compression jacket. He was burnt on hit chest and...

by User avatar anngeoff

Hand burns treatment

Hello, my name is Zeina i am 20 years old .when i was a kid aged 3 years old i burned my hand with hot water but scars are still all ove my hand i tried to heal it i went to a doctor and peeled my hand but still as it is. I would like to know the best treatment for my burned hand.

by User avatar Snoopie68380

droped dumbell on penis

i was excercising doing tricep presses- 20 dumbell on stomach--it rolls over on my penis- everyting works fine--but it doesnt feel the same. been this way for almost amonth--i havent done anything 2 make it better-any advice

by User avatar Guest