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11-23-2015, 07:41 AM
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Skinned Leg and Facial Wounds After Bus Accident
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11-23-2015, 11:06 PM
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Re: Skinned Leg and Facial Wounds After Bus Accident
That poor man, he must be in agony. Interesting, his leg was perfectly skinned- you can see the muscle beautifully. Hopefully it can be repaired.  |
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11-24-2015, 01:34 AM
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Re: Skinned Leg and Facial Wounds After Bus Accident
Mmn... look at those tendons.... nice and silver.. They WERE healthy....  Note, that silver part WAS his Achilles tendon. Was ripped right off the heel and retracted up the calf.... That leg is toast...    · |
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11-25-2015, 08:58 PM
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Re: Skinned Leg and Facial Wounds After Bus Accident
no other way of fixing it if those tendons are torn? from my ignorant point of view before(and i haven't learned new until now), i thought tendons were just like strings that pulls at the joints. enlighten me with medical explanation please.
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11-26-2015, 02:16 AM
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Re: Skinned Leg and Facial Wounds After Bus Accident
^ Xyber- mine is just slightly torn or strained, probably needs surgery as supposedly they will not heal on their own. It really hurts some days, others it feels like it's completely healed until I forget and stretch it too far. When they are 'ruptured', they snap like a rubber band and recoil up the back of the leg -aiyaahh!- and definitely the lower leg becomes useless until surgery. That is just my layman's take on it, I'm not a doc!  |
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11-26-2015, 05:50 AM
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Re: Skinned Leg and Facial Wounds After Bus Accident
Met someone earlier this year who had their entire bicep rip from the elbow joint up... tendon tore right off the bone.. had surgery.. still recovering.. Nasty stuff. (obviously had no use of the limb.) He's doing better now and can use it..just a shit load of physical therapy. Basically have to drill into the bone and anchor it back to the bone that way.  Sprained muscles are a bitch.. add into play tendons and it's a whole different level of ouch. I've had to wear my share of air casts on ankles in the past. some say sprained muscles/tendons are worse than having broken bones.(sprain takes longer to heal completely.) |
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11-26-2015, 11:33 PM
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Re: Skinned Leg and Facial Wounds After Bus Accident
^ Minty- You ain't lyin'! I stepped backwards and fell down a hay chute, but the heel of my boot caught on the ledge, so I was stuck w/my knee twisted inside out, and I could hear all the ligaments, tendons stretching and the knee joint itself fixing to break, so I just pushed myself on thru and fell about 10 feet and landed on a pile of manure, with a bunch of baby calves sniffing and licking at me. Thank gawd it wasn't the bull pen! Anyway, when I stood up my leg was just swinging freely from the knee joint, every which way, the pain almost made me pass out, especially hours later when they did X-rays. Like you say, the docs said I would have been better breaking it than spraining the whole knee, and dislocating it. Never been the same, and that was 25 years ago. |
