Cast Removal at Home

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✍️Dr. Matthew Harb talks about cast removal

👨‍⚕️Orthopedic Hip and Knee Surgeon
📍Located in Washington DC, and Maryland
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🛠Minimally invasive, outpatient, hip and knee replacement surgery

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Dr. Matthew Harb specializes in minimally invasive, muscle sparing, hip and knee replacement surgery. Minimally invasive surgery allows patients to recover faster and have less pain post operatively. Implants are tailored and custom fit to each patient to allow for improved performance. Dr. Harb’s expertise in rapid recovery protocols allow for quick recovery after surgery and excellent outcomes in patients with hip and knee arthritis. With minimally invasive, muscle sparing surgery patients can return to their lifestyles and get back to doing the things they love sooner. Dr. Harb performs outpatient joint replacement surgery with many of his patients walking independently and going home the day of surgery.

“My focus is excellence in patient care, expedited recovery after surgery, and getting people back to the normal activities they love. Our team focused approach is committed to superb outcomes, improving lives, and returning patients to living pain free.”

[MrRyansLP]

I was thinking why would anyone do this ever but then I remembered American health care is completely broken and this would cost literally thousands to be done in a hospital thank god for the NHS

[Arxolotl]

"We wanna get new X-Rays and make sure you do not have to go back home in a cast."
I would also like to go home with my wallet.

[elWHYTERHYNO]

“I dont recommend this because I want all your money”

[youraveragefloridaboy]

Yeah, still gonna do it at home. I'm not paying a couple thousand dollars to go into the damn beep boop machine

[Emshii_]

As a Canadian, it’s fucking dystopian to hear about Americans paying upwards of $700 dollar USD just for a cast removal. Holy shit that’s theft

[Pezevenk_Katili]

“We don’t recommend this because we want your entire life savings”

[chinchillamdgamer]

When she's trying to save $700 for the cast removal. Hey she did good. Just make sure you don't remove it before hand, or go get the x-ray then run away before they remove your cast and remove it at home.

[BMorganO]

I have a fiber class cast all the way above my right knee just for a crack in my growth plate. But I’m fully healed now

[protoni]

keep it few week extra and your be fine for saving bill, and do it self (that's my personal experience)

[someoneyoudontknow]

I just healed from a wrist fracture.
I needed some pt and X-rays and a cast.
Total about 1000 after insurance

[syufa]

I'm glad my country covers half of our medical bills

[true_poppy]

I had to do this once :/ took a while bur niw my hand is all healed. All i can say is...just be careful. I don't want you guys to experience a broken bone cause it hurts soo bad 😭🖐️

[ZoeyR]

You can buy an osolating tool from harbor freight for cheap with a friction blade. This is virtually identical to what the hospital uses to cut the cast. Just cut into the softest skin the blade just shakes a few millimeters. Since the skin can stretch more than the cutting stroke, the skin is never cut this is how bone saws work

[PixelatedPuzzlements]

Listen to the doc, did this with my foot a decade ago, and the nerves are just now returning to normal

[CanOfMapleSyrup]

I love the comments being pro american healthcare.

The whole issue is that the healthcare system both the hospitals and the insurance companies are "for profit"

That artificially inflates the cost of healthcare for everyone who needs it.

We have "free healthcare" in Denmark which is really just paid for by everyone through their taxes. We however do not need health insurance to get treatment and there is no copay on top of there being no insurance cost.

Also most of our hospitals are non profit which is what makes this able to work. Private hospitals still exist and they are for profit.

We do however have a accident insurance that can help is in case an accident makes us unable to work permanently but it has nothing to do with the healthcare.

[MichaelJohnson-cvqc]

People are starting not to care doc when you want us to sign over a arm or leg to just have a x-ray . You can keep that idea

[ernestworrell]

From experience, don't remove your own casts. I broke my fibula and cut my cast off the same day... Still don't walk right and it's been 10 years🤣

[inotetsu]

Imagine paying 1.5k for a cast to be removed. I fractured my kneecap so bad they had to fly a specialist from lapland to helsinki to perform the operation. I paid like 100 euros for the entire thing. (I bought the nurses some pastries and candy for that money because they were awesome, I paid zero for the operation or stay.)

[billybobjoe]

"We don't recommend you do any medical care at home because then we can't charge you for it."

[bobthatguy]

But also you could get medical person who doesn’t want to take their time cut off the cast and ends up burning you with the saw