External Fixation For Fractured Bones #shorts

How External Fixation Is Used To Fix #BrokenBones - Orthopedic External fixators are like scaffolding for fractured bones. Using specially designed pins and rods placed outside the body, these devices hold bone fragments in perfect alignment while letting the body do its natural healing magic, like a high-tech support system that gives your bones the stability they need to heal properly
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Why do #orthopedic surgeons choose external fixation?
• Excellent for severe fractures w/ soft tissue damage
• Allows wound care access while maintaining stability
• Can be adjusted as swelling changes
• Less invasive vs. traditional internal fixation #fracturecare
• Ideal for complex reconstructions and limb lengthening
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#ExternalFixation devices can be fine-tuned throughout the healing process, ensuring optimal bone alignment. While they might look intimidating, external fixators are actually reducing surgery risks and improving outcomes for countless patients worldwide. The basic principles of external fixation were first described over 2000 yrs ago, and today's versions are incredibly advanced, using materials like carbon fiber and computerized adjustment systems. #fracturecare
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[DonnyLumpkin]

I was an x-ray tech and I used to work in the OR running the C arm for these kinds of cases. It was awesome to watch that being done.

[byronmillanicia]

😮😮😮 amazing!!! What medicine science has accomplished, in less than 200 years.

[josephmangarella]

When we were kids my younger brother broke his lower leg in 5 places playing soccer
About 2 weeks later we were sitting on the couch together. He had 5 rods through his bone attached another bar outside his cast
As brothers sometimes will I picked up a tuning fork, tapped it on a table and touched it to one of the rods going through his leg to see if he would feel it
I'm sure you can all imagine the outcome of that bad idea

[lindsayj.]

I had this done for a leg length difference when I was 14. I’ve had 26 major hip and spine surgeries. I’m only 43.

[jasonwoods]

They suck i had one for about 9 months

[NickChangsak-yq]

I think I would just have an amputation?😢

[randomconsumer]

NO! NO! I have Osteogenesis, my right tibfib has been broken more times than I can remember. Never had surgery on it so it looks like a bow & arrow. Doctors at 1 time were talking about breaking my leg in over 10 places and put 1 of these on. I decided to just have a bent ass leg.

[sandyp]

I had a compound fracture my leg, both bones.. the skinny bone was removed to damaged to repair. The fat none tubular I had 2 none grafts. I had a long leg cast for 3 years several surgery's..I prefer cast, crutches compared to that thing it would e painful, uncomfortable

[brarautorepairs]

😂 I'm a full grown man and I don't have have that much hair on my legs

[witchybritches]

Yeah, it’s been hard for her to shave that leg 😮

[MissDaisyTheRacoon]

I thought this was a short about the first leg transplant using a man's leg on a woman.