Orthopedics Forum - One Year Old Son's Broken Arm

Hello I am Riyasa from Sri Lanka. I have two children 6 yearrs old daughter and one year old son. I wish to let you know of an incident which broke my son's arm bone. I was about to get ready to go to my daughter's school to collect her when I gave my son to the babysitter, after a minute he started crying so without getting ready to go I came and carried him and soothed him thinking that he was crying because I gave him to her, but he cried for one hour and he slept afterwards, then after he woke he started crying and several minutes later I noticed a swelling on his left arm and also he did not move it like he used to, so I suspected something and asked the babysitter but she said he just started crying then I took him to the doctor , they took Xray of his arm, showing that his bone was broken , then he was given anaesthesia several hours later and they put this heavy plaster. I have to keep him with the plaster till march 21st. Till his bone grows back to it's normal self.

OH PLEASE SOMEONE HELP! I JUST GOT BACK FROM THE HOSPITAL REMOVING THE PLASTER FROM MY SON'S ARM. THE ARM LOOKS SWOLLEN AND ALTTLE BENT THE SHAPE OF THE ARM IS ALITTLE ABNORMAL. THE DOC SAID IT BECAUSE IT IS SWOLLEN, BUT HE ASKED ME TO TAKE THE XRAY AND SHOW IT TO HIM TOMORROW. I TOOK THE XRAY BUT I THINK THAT HIS ARM IS ALITTLE BENT. I AM NOT SATISFIED WITH THE DOCTOCR'S WORK. OH I AM SO WORRIED. I CAN EVEN SEND YOU THE XRAY WHICH I TOOK AFTER REMOVING THE PLASTER. IF ANYONE KNOW HOW I CAN GET HELP ONLINE I MEAN ANYONE WHOM I CAN SEND THE XRAY PLEASE LET ME KNOW.

YOU SEE I TOOK THE XRAY TO ANOTHER DOCTOR NOW IT IS LATE HERE IN THE NIGHT HE TOLD ME THAT THE OTHER DOCTOR COULD HAVE DONE IT A LITTLE BETTER. PLEASE SOMEONE WHO KNOWS ABOUT THIS HELP.

Crying or Very sad

Replies(2)

matt182

replied on March 22nd, 2007

Experienced User

I think you should see a better doctor. I dont know about the particular fracture to comment much further, but if the brake occured around the growth plate then i would have imagined an operation would have been needed Confused

the probelm with braking a bone on an infant is that the bones are growing, therefore if the brake is bad enough they have to make sure it is put into place properly, which plaster itself doesnt do. If the doctor did indeed make a mistake, the abnormality will only worsen, see someone else! Smile

gobucks21

replied on April 11th, 2007

New User

I agree with the past post. Also, are you sure that it looks like the actual bone is bent? When you break a bone you obviously do not use the muscles around it for a period of time and they can lose a bit of strength, making the arm look smaller. Although, considering he is only a year old, it is probably a good idea to have it looked at by another doctor.

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