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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.

Weeping Burns to the hands.

Plain and simple. Pop the blisters with a sterile pin or sharp object. Allow it to drain, then soak the hand in salt-water to loosen up the dead skin. Wash the area contsantly and use paper towels to absorb the weeping. Apply Hydrogen peroxide and a topical ointment before bed. I would not recommend...

by User avatar jeffrro

lisfranc and cuboid fracture

Hi Im hoping someone can help me out. Im told I have a lisfranic and cuboid fracture from a crush injury of foot. I was run over by a tractor 12 weeks ago and Im wondering how long this is going to take to heal. I still have 3 toes that are broken in several places and I just got my fixators off 2...

by User avatar lilacs4u84446

stiff

I am a 26 year old that is having problems with my thumb. I have had trouble with it for about 4 months, I am having trouble flexing it especially in the mornings. I wake up and its really sore and stiff and it takes about 30 mins to finally where I am able to flex it. Someone had said that it...

by User avatar dk2628158

fractured jaw is infected any remedys?

my bf fractured his lower jaw and had a plate put in about2 months ago, he recently hit his jaw again and is having same symptoms as before, what can he do for the pain and infection till he can see dr?

by User avatar stacy

fracture bilateral heel, fx rt first to and fibula. left 1

I have been on drugs to ease the pain and have found the right amt to keep the pain to a min.--unless I step down wrong, which I don't know when that will happen. My doctor talked with a pain management dr about possibility of doing something without worrying about ulcers onmy feet and I don't...

by User avatar Guest

Sternum Pain PLEASE RESPOND!

Answered by a doctor

the other day my boyfriend and i were playing around and wrestling each other and i got hit in the chest/sternum area very hard. i tried to sleep it off but kept waking up in pain. i can't sleep on my sides because it was hurting to do that. it hurts when i breath, it's harder to breath, my chest is...

by User avatar j_bridges10231468

Swelling for a week, not painful but aching; Is this a Lisfr

Hi there, Last Wednesday I fell down 3 steps and kinda left my right foot at the top, it twisted and I heard a snap, in fact the security guards in the building heard the snap too. I went straight to the hospital as it was very, very painful, they xrayed it and told me there was no fracture or...

by User avatar jlkelly680595

sternum pain

Answered by a doctor

my boyfriend, has been having pains in his chest, particularly over top of his sternum bone... he has had this pain before, but it seems to discontinue after a couple weeks, but returns a month or so later. He said it hurts when he sneezes, and stretches his chest outwards. it doesnt hurt...

by User avatar cheeksie87688

wish i found this forum earlier

I got a lisfranc fracture in May 2007. They first thought it was a hairline fracture and put me in a cast for 1 month. The doctor said I can walk on it and do what I want. Then one long month later when I thought I was cured, they send me to a specialist and lo and behold, I had a lisfrac. (they...

by User avatar Guest

Lisfranc Injury - Crutches or Turning Leg Caddy

My husband injuried his right foot 11 days ago. After two days on crutches he was going crazy trying to get around. A while back I saw a gal at the mall, rolling along on a scooter type device with her foot in a cast. It looks like child's scooter but the platform is higher so you kneel on it. It...

by User avatar Joda77586