Damage to your limb when you fall or hit can be a dislocation, bruise, sprain and, of course, a fracture. How to determine this and what to do if I broke my arm?
The Golden Rule of
Remember! Without your proper physical examination and related research, it is simply impossible to determine whether your injury is serious. That is why it is necessary to take as a rule the following: whatever trauma you have, treat it as a potentially serious damage, not paying any attention to the fact that your leg or arm looks as usual.
What if I sprained, stretched, or broke my arm?
- First of all, you need to deliver the injured person to a trauma center. It is necessary to follow the rules of transportation for fractures of limbs. These include hand fixation. As a fixing material you can use sticks, cardboard, fabric. They will play the role of the so-called "bus".If you can not do this, then call an ambulance.
- You do not need to know how to break your arm or leg to understand that bleeding from a damaged area should be stopped by yourself! This can happen in the case of an open fracture. It is necessary first of all to stop the bleeding, and then to deal with the fracture itself - remember this!
- Unlike bleeding stop, it is not even necessary to try and cope with potential dislocation yourself and try!
What can not be done with a bruised and broken arm
- Of course, you can not stand idle! Even if you see that the swelling of the tissues is small, and the mobility of your limb is not disturbed at all, be sure to take an X-ray, and consult a doctor.
- Do not transport the victim in any way without properly fixing the damaged arm or leg.
- If a woman breaks her arm, she does not need to try to attach her habitual position to the injured limb on her own, as this will only worsen the condition of the victim.
- Never practice the use of medication alone - anesthetics and ointments from bruises. This should be done strictly after consulting a doctor.
Signs of fracture of the bones of the hand
How can you understand that you broke your arm? Naturally, for the following symptoms:
- is quite severe pain;
- swelling of tissues or their increase in volume;
- hemorrhage;
- impaired bone shape or joint integrity;
- a broken limb can not move or, on the contrary, is excessively mobile.
To determine if a hand is broken, the doctor will ask you to move it. If you can not do this, or if all your attempts are accompanied by pain, a fracture is evident. Be that as it may, the point in this case will be an X-ray photograph of the damaged site.
X-ray
Confirmation of the fracture occurs directly at the hospital or trauma unit using X-ray images in any given projection.
They will grab the necessary area and help show the integrity of the joint, the nature of the injury, the presence of available bone fragments.