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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.

Vertigo after hitting my head

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I slipped on ice last thursday and hit my head. Over last weekend I was getting extremely bad headaches and having trouble sleeping. Now I am just getting extreme dizzy spells, to the point where if standing a loose my balance. I haven't gone to the doctor, because I work and go to school, but I'm...

by User avatar KGair73103651

collarbone problem, since halloween!

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Hi, im wondering if anyone else on here knows whats going with my left collarbone. This happened halloween night and my friend was fooling around. I was slouched way down in a old metal chair. Somehow she fell on me just in the right way and i came up and hit under the armrest and heard a crack....

by User avatar ilyblondiebaybay96759

Femural Neck Fracture

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I am only 53 and I fell off my bicycle and was going very slowly and fell onto a wood planter around a mailbox. I must have hit the edge. It didn't give. But I broke my hip! I had surgery that night. The surgeon inserted 3 pins. I hope I don't have to have a hip replacement someday. It has...

by User avatar Guest

Ossification lumps at site of femur break - are the ok, will they go away?

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Hi, I broke both my femurs in early July 2008. Now, 4 months later I still have a pronounced lump on my left thigh at the site of the fracture that gets sore every now and then. I can't correlate soreness with any particular acticity (or lack thereof). I have also been non weightbearing on my left...

by User avatar Guest

I have chest pains

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My friend and i were wrestling and he held me down by pushing his kneee very hard into my chest now my chest kind of hurts and it feels kind of tight when i breathe, kind of like a rubber band is wrapped around my lungs or something

by User avatar tmh_1088256

back pain after fall

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Fell 9/13 head first onto concrete floor. Had fractured left patella. After second day, other areas hurt which I expected. However, my lower back, specifically the left side, hurts but goes into my hip and left buttocks and down my leg into my foot. Could the head first fall which was very hard...

by User avatar doris soltis

How can second degree chemical burn be treated?

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Hello, folks. My friend is hospitalized since he got second degree chemical burn. He was in touch with some acid, I am not sure which one. I would like to know how second degree of these burns can be treated. I will really appreciate all your responses. Thanks in advance, guys.

by User avatar fidelio118053951

Infection and a second degree burn

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I must admit that I have never been this frightened in my life, as in the moment I have heard our little daughter has been caught by the fire. Thank God she is alive and well, all we have to do now is deal with the burn, which luckily affected only a small potion of her arm and is considered a...

by User avatar kelley147381736

RSD Systemic attacks

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Hi, many years ago, I had a stress fracture in one of my feet. It developed into reflex sympathetic dystrophy (RSD). When I try to walk a little longer, I get an attack and my joint swells abnormally. What should I do?

by User avatar Guest

Fluid compensation in burn injury!

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What do I have to know about the burn injury? My wife is about to deliver our baby and I am trying to learn as much as possible about how to react in certain situations. What about the fluid compensation? Is that also important? How is that done? Do you know?

by User avatar dore118580620