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Cast Removed Too Soon?
My daughter broke her arm on her 5th birthday 8/22/11. I took her to the ER, where they splinted it up and gave her a sling. We saw her ped the next day & he scheduled us with ortho on 8/24/17.
Her diagnosis was a distal radius fracture that may have affected the growth plate. The ortho doctor put her in a hard cast for 3 weeks, then we followed up for another X-ray & a new cast... but he said she had healed completely. They took her cast off and that was that.
It's been about 9-10 months now. She complains of pain in that arm a few times a month. I asked her ped to X-ray her arm today & we are awaiting results.
What are the potential complications of not keeping her arm immobilized for 6 weeks minimum (which was the original plan)? How could her growth plate be affected? Is surgery likely needed if it healed wrong?
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3 weeks is usually enough for fracture healing in a 5 year old child. With regards to her growth plate being affected, it could have been affected at the time of fracture itself if the fracture went through the growth plate. Immobilizing for longer period of time would not have affected the outcome. I don't usually expect any changes on the x-ray but if there are and are causing symptoms they will be ways and means to deal with them now depending on the x-ray findings.
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