Needed some elbow grease tonight

[hoosierdoc]

Sitting at gymnastics place while my son does Ninja Gym. Lots of girls here doing gymnastics. I'm on my phone playing a game (clash royale) and my wife yells at me to go down there they need 911 for a girl.


I waddle over and see a girl with a dislocated elbow from the beam. Poor thing. I had just been watching and shocked there weren't more injuries.

Got it back in gotta love the flexibility of child gymnasts, sure helps for reducing dislocations.

still waiting for my wife to swoon from my actions. I'll update later if she does. This was our first night here, we had been at their other facility for a year. Fortunate turn of events.

 

[chezuki]

Sure... You tug on a child's arm and you're a "hero". I do it and I'm a "predator" and have to "register with the county".

 

[JEDenny]

OUCH

 

[Tula47]

Sure... You tug on a child's arm and you're a "hero". I do it and I'm a "predator" and have to "register with the county".

That was funny, well played.

 

[hoosierdoc]

Sure... You tug on a child's arm and you're a "hero". I do it and I'm a "predator" and have to "register with the county".

Hah, yeah. I was careful how I posted so it didn't seem weird.

i wasn't going to try to reduce it without parents there and saying go ahead but she didn't have much of a pulse in her wrist at the time.

 

[jagee]

Probably better amputate, just to be safe

 

[91FXRS]

Good job doc.

 

[BogWalker]

Hah, yeah. I was careful how I posted so it didn't seem weird.

i wasn't going to try to reduce it without parents there and saying go ahead but she didn't have much of a pulse in her wrist at the time.

Walk me through this Doctor, how does a dislocation weaken the pulse, and what would be the end result if left untreated?

 

[hoosierdoc]

The brachial artery goes in front of the elbow in the little divot area. If you dislocate the elbow the humerus comes forward and puts pressure on the vessel and can compress it. Can also get nerve entrapment/injury. Basically slows down blood flow beyond the injury, which can lead to nerve damage, loss of limb, etc.

always check pulses below an extremity injury. If you can't feel one and there's a deformity it is best to hurry the extrication or reduce it if you can

 

[Woobie]

The brachial artery goes in front of the elbow in the little divot area. If you dislocate the elbow the humerus comes forward and puts pressure on the vessel and can compress it. Can also get nerve entrapment/injury. Basically slows down blood flow beyond the injury, which can lead to nerve damage, loss of limb, etc.

always check pulses below an extremity injury. If you can't feel one and there's a deformity it is best to hurry the extrication or reduce it if you can

Thats a quality post. Thanks for the advice.

However, Rep Nazi says "No rep for you!"

 

[BogWalker]

Dangit, I can't get him either.

 

[jagee]

I got him for you guys

 

[Hoosierkav]

While you were attending to that, I had an ankle injury going on at my house. Much less impressive than yours though.

 

[SMiller]

The brachial artery goes in front of the elbow in the little divot area. If you dislocate the elbow the humerus comes forward and puts pressure on the vessel and can compress it. Can also get nerve entrapment/injury. Basically slows down blood flow beyond the injury, which can lead to nerve damage, loss of limb, etc.

always check pulses below an extremity injury. If you can't feel one and there's a deformity it is best to hurry the extrication or reduce it if you can

PMS...

 

[hoosierdoc]

PMS...

X 3!

 

[SMiller]

Thats a quality post. Thanks for the advice.

However, Rep Nazi says "No rep for you!"

You should see what they do for a broken femur, hook up a pulley and pull the leg down, it is not pretty!

 

[SMiller]

X 3!

x4 when you got done with her.

 

[BehindBlueI's]

Sure... You tug on a child's arm and you're a "hero". I do it and I'm a "predator" and have to "register with the county".

Where's YOUR equal protection under the law. Doctors being all special because they went to "medical school" before they started "practicing" medicine. If it's just practicing, why can't the rest of us get in on it? How am I gonna learn to doctor things if I can't practice doctoring?

 

[Cameramonkey]

Ninja Gym FTW! My Oldest Monkey does it there afternoons with other homeschoolers. Between cracking down on his incessant snacking (he's a boredom eater who likes to snack out of habit while he reads) and ninja gym, he dropped 10lbs in 6 mos to a more reasonable BMI.

 

[OutdoorDad]

So not a nursemaids' elbow?