Cast Change

#shorts ✍️Dr. Matthew Harb talks about cast changes

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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.”

[AShoresfishing]

I had to be in a splint for two weeks to wait for swelling to go down and then I was in the cast for another 3-4 weeks

[bossnbuchan]

I'm no doctor but aren't you guys supposed to wrap the hand as well with the wrist cause that's what they did for me when i was a kid. They would wrap my hand first and then wrap my wrist to my arm. So that way the cast wouldn't fall off at all because it was also on my hand.

[kennabee]

Mine did that and my mom just told me that that meant it was time for it to come off and i was healed. To this day i still have limited mobility in my left wrist.

[Corzappy]

When I fractured my wrist I got a cast that went to my elbow, but I did only get it put on like 2 weeks after the fracture because I thought it was sprained, so I just wore a brace and went skiing with a fracture in my arm.

[XXelpollodiabloXX]

When I broke my scaphoid they tried putting me in a full arm cast. I said nuts to that noise, I can't work like that, so do the surgery instead. I woke up from surgery in a full arm cast. What we had there was a failure to communicate.

[NoahMorley-xx]

Your storytelling abilities are unmatched.

[David_Martinez__]

They instantly did a cast for me because I was so young dude I kept slipping mine in and out and I never had it changed except for like twice

[katherinekeegan]

This happened to me. Got it changed the day before thanksgiving thankfully lol.

[terrismith]

I was given the option of a cast or titanium plate and no cast. Went with the plate to make sure I got my mobility back.

[gofk]

I Used A Long Arm Cast When I Broke My Wrist

[Gazooka]

The past 3 years before my mom passed she had broken her wrist on both radius and ulnar, they put a cast on yet it was badly swollen, obviously after 4 days that swelling went down so much I could get my fingers in the cast, I urged her to go to the hospital to get it recasted but she said they will see her in 3 days time to do it, I kept saying it needs doing literally that day, but she was adamant to go when the hospital told her. Low and behold the bones started to fuse and her hand was almost 1 inch out of line from her forearm and at like a 20 degree angle, but instead of the doctor’s resetting it they just casted over it and left it… it pained her every time she used it for any kind of movement as the wrist and some carpals had fused.
Moral of the story: if your cast gets loose/breaks…just go back to the hospital and have them redo it and save yourself the pain.

[karenimran]

I had my wrist almost up to my shoulder for six weeks, then below my elbow for a further six weeks when I was a child.

[mannmann]

I just hope dat baby heal and get back well..

[Everythinghopless]

They put mine on so loose that when I got angry as a child, after less than a week of it being on, I was able to pull it off.

[gaining_subs_without_trying]

Had my wrist broken so they decided to put on a full arm cast😂

[thebestiesquad]

Omg this happend to me but thankfully I only had the cast for another 2 weeks but I still put it on and then took it off and you know the routine

[thelmamorgan]

So, I've been having issues with my wrist for years. I got an x ray after a fall, just a few months back. They said there is significant space where there shouldn't be and put me in a case. EVERY single time, within a day the cast would be sliding off. They did try a splint first but there was no improvement. There was also no improvement from the casts either and I've been waiting to hear about and MRI for like... well over a month.

[EarthaClit]

Funny story about my friends lil bro breaking his arm and a cast mishap lol

As a kid in the late 90s my besties little brother crashed his bike into the tree outside the house, we were all having our big summer sleepover that weekend at hers, her little bro went in crying about his arm hurting so his mum told him to slap a wet paper towel on it and go back out, he was like 7 or 8 and we were about 9-10. As he’s crying and going into the house right after the crash his sister asks if he’s okay and in a deep voice he tells her to F off (as usual even now lol) his arm started to swell up so he had some medicine and it got worse so he went to the hospital the next afternoon and they xrayed it and found it was broken but it was so swollen they couldn’t cast it so he went home with a wrist sling and when he fell asleep that night he put his arm up with his elbow bent so his arm was above his head and we woke up to him screaming for his mum because it had gotten stuck 😂 when he finally had a cast put on it his sister held him down and wrote the C word across it for telling her to F off when she tried to help him so he had to wear a sock over it for a couple weeks until his next cast change😂😂

[CrownedYori]

Talking to me like it was a quest lol💀

[hayleesobey]

My mother did this so the doctors gave her a backstrap instead of a full cast.