cross-posted from: https://thelemmy.club/post/54296827
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- 2 months
I got into a car crash and went to the ER to get an X-ray done to make sure nothing was off, not this was a week after the crash. Anyways hurt like a bitch and after awhile of waiting the X-ray gets done and the tech just kinda looks at it for a minute, turns to me and says “Two bits of good news, your knee is just inflamed and swollen no breaks, also Ive been doing this for awhile and your bone density is absurd” which is how I found out that I’m a freak of nature who has borderline unbreakable bones. Explains why I struggle to swim in fresh water so much.
- KuroiKaze@lemmy.worldEnglish2 months
I have this exact same anomaly, I learned about it from a dexa scan.
- 2 months
Yeah it’s not too uncommon as I understand just not the norm. Though with me being so short it does give me the joke that evolution is trying to reinvent Neanderthals and I’m it’s Alpha version.
- KuroiKaze@lemmy.worldEnglish2 months
Basically they told me that I was in the top 1% of their data collection efforts And I want to say he said something about it being two standard deviations off normal.
- 2 months
Fair enough, like I said me finding out was just an X-ray tech pointing it out and saying it was kinda cool. So I have no clue where I fall within actual standards.
- 2 months
Sadly no. But I am five foot five, can go berserk, and like retro motorcycles. Though I think Wolverine is more of a Harley guy rather than a Honda and Enfield guy.
- JamesBoeing737MAX@sopuli.xyzEnglish2 months
Well, could be genetic. You figure out when the main bone cracks.
- Polisheocket@lemmy.zipEnglish2 months
Looks like major leg construction, someone removed it and forgot to put it back in
2 months“… limb lengthening surgery side effect may include missing bones , desire to reverse the surgery,… death… and other terrible things. Results may vary. No batteries included . No refunds guaranteed. Ask your doctor today.”
🌟🌟 Happy Go Lucky music continues to play in the bacckground 👯💃
- village604@adultswim.fanEnglish2 months
That’s not what this is. That hardware is to set a bone, and those bone lengthy rigs are more complex.
Most likely scenario is either the bone was shattered enough that repair wasn’t possible, or it was used for a bone graft. The fibula is a common bone that’s used because it’s not very load bearing.
- sunbytes@lemmy.worldEnglish2 months
“Do you want the good news or the bad news first?”
“The good news”
“We’re going to name the disease after you”
- adarza@lemmy.caEnglish2 months
“Well, then what’s the bad news?”
“We’re going to name the disease after you”
- 2 months
It’s always a great feeling when a doctor looks at something from you and then calls their colleagues to look as well…
- jj4211@lemmy.worldEnglish2 months
Back in school went to the school clinic for strep throat, and upon listening to my heart, he said “just a moment”, then pulled in the med student and quizzed them on what they were hearing and how it was abnormal.
Which led to a follow up echocardiogram where the technician was explaining everything we were looking at and what it was, until a very specific view then she shut up, tapped a bunch of things on the device, printed out something, then moved to another view and resumed describing everything except what she just saw.
- 2 months
How… reassuring… did she ever tell you what that was about?
- jj4211@lemmy.worldEnglish2 months
Oh the tech wasn’t allowed to discuss medically relevant stuff.
The doctor followed up and I have an essentially benign heart anomaly. Growing up first doctors didn’t think it was worth exploring, then doctors said it went away, that was my first visit to a doctor after moving to a bigger city and those doctors were shocked a doctor would say it went away and not even bother to image it before dismissing it.
- lightnsfw@reddthat.comEnglish2 months
My eye doctor did that on one of my recent visits. Apparently my astigmatism is exceptional…
- jj4211@lemmy.worldEnglish2 months
A little better, at least then it’s something the doctor likely understands, but thinks it is at least a bit of a teachable situation.
If they call in a peer or superior, then it means something was over their depth and then you really worry.
- 2 months
The students just want to see freaky stuff. E. g. my appendix ruptured when I was 15 and it took my mother a few days to realize I’m not faking. So I have a bunch of scars, some parts are missing and other’s just look a bit off. Nothing I don’t know or can’t live with.
But when they call their fully grown colleagues to look at THAT. That’s creepy. That’s not good.
- Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish2 months
I’d say yes. If it’s regular rare it’s interesting for the younglings, if its extra rare it’s interesting even for the experienced.
- Kevin77@lemmy.zipEnglish2 months
I have the same nail in my tibia. I Also fractured my fibula and they said that they don’t normally do much for a fibula break.
- stoicmaverick@lemmy.worldEnglish2 months
I don’t care obviously, but my friend wants to know if there’s a story behind this.
- myyass@lemmy.worldEnglish2 months
I hope you got titanium. It’s bio compatible with bone and will fuse together. Took about ten years for me. I was told it’s not important to have a fibula but I think mine probably merged back together since it doesn’t feel like razor blades in my leg.
- raspirate@lemmy.worldEnglish2 months
One time I was in the ER, and a doctor noted that my heart beat has a rather pronounced split s2 rythm which is something that doctors need to learn to discern when listening to a heartbeat, so for the next hour as I was waiting around, I had several other younger physicians stop by and say “hey I was told to come listen to your heartbeat.”
Made me feel a little special in a very peculiar way I haven’t known since.
- mrmisses@lemmy.worldEnglish2 months
Couldn’t they just, you know, simulate it on a computer? Or listen to a recording? I guess it’s possible you’re very old.
- Soup@lemmy.worldEnglish2 months
Not a doctor, but am in various situations where I have to pick sounds out. There’s something very valuable about having a natural example, especially if the person listening has to find that example all on their own.
- mrmisses@lemmy.worldEnglish2 months
They were told they should listen to the heartbeat. Also I’ve worked at several colleges, I’ve seen what they train with - it’s very impressive. They can definitely simulate it today
- el_abuelo@programming.devEnglish2 months
Notice how you used the word simulate?
Until you use the world “replicate” I’m going to go ahead and say that real world experience is still better. Maybe not much better… but when it comes to doctors, I’ll take “just better” 7 days a week.
- pishadoot@sh.itjust.worksEnglish2 months
A girlfriend’s father had a condition where his organs were mirrored to the opposite side of the body and his circulatory system ran backwards (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Situs_inversus)
Him and his family doctor loved bringing new coworkers in to do a “liver check” or something like that, and watch the person probe around with their hand and slowly get confused, then kind of freak out, when they couldn’t find organs in the body.
They did it for many years and both thought it was hilarious.
- Manalith@midwest.socialEnglish2 months
I’m left-handed and always secretly wished I had this and a right-handed twin so we could literally be mirror copies of each other.
The defibrillator strikes again!
Full disclosure: I am not a doctor.
- GarboDog@lemmy.worldEnglish2 months
Someone yoinked it while you were under for surgery or something??? Lmao
- JasonDJ@lemmy.zipEnglish2 months
I saw a guy selling fibulas on the black market and I thought it was humerous. He had that too but it cost an arm and a leg.
Um… so looking at the tibia, that is 100% an intramedullary tibial nail:
…which means their tibia was broken as fuck, and there’s a pretty hefty chance the fibula was also broken as fuck in that same injury.
My guess is the missing segment was fragmented to the point of not being saveable, and removed during the same operation the IM nail was placed.
That doesn’t necessarily mean the OP is bullshit - maybe they had some new resident docs, or nurses, or techs or w/e who hadn’t seen that before and it was a genuine wtf moment for them. I love it when new staff get that look!
Huh. I’ve only ever seen that word in the context of anatomy, but I guess it also belongs to the cores of trees. TIL.
- 2 months
Probably just an atrophic nonunion fracture. If it was that damaged and you were already doing a tibial nail, there wouldn’t really be a reason not to do a fibular nail at the same time.
The fibula has fairly poor blood flow compared to the tibia, it’s not really that rare for the fracture to never callus and bridge back together. If that happens a lot of the times the bone will be subject to resorption.
If it was that damaged and you were already doing a tibial nail, there wouldn’t really be a reason not to do a fibular nail at the same time.
Yeah… supply issue maybe? Or patient opted out due to cost?
/shrug
- 2 months
Supply issues aren’t really an issue, orthopedic operations like this aren’t exactly emergent care. If you have time to procure a tibial nail there isn’t a reason you wouldn’t be able to get a fibular nail at the same time.
As far as cost, the same logic applies. When an orthopedist is coming up with a treatment plan you submit the treatment plan that would best lead to the overall best outcome for the patient, you don’t really formulate based on the most economic outcome.
The insurance company isn’t going to deny a fibular nail, but approve a tibial one. If they are going to go out of pocket, the cost of the fibular nail would be negligible when compared to the overall cost of the operation. The most expensive aspect of an orthopedic moderation is the operating room and the anesthesia, not the additional hardware or operating time.
Just spitballing. Consent issue maybe? Like it only covered tibia, and the staff didn’t notice until the patient was under / couldn’t get a hold of family to have it added?
How quickly can it absorb?
- 2 months
That’s not really how consent works, at least not in the US. You typically give consent for the operation, not for every individual procedure that’s done in the operation. A lot of the times you don’t really know what’s going to be needed to be done until you have the patient opened up, so the provider has a lot of leeway to operate as they see fit.
How quickly can it absorb?
Depends on the individual and what bone we are talking about. Though that’s quite a lot of bone to dissipate, so my guess would be that it’s a fairly old injury.
From what I’ve seen in the US, it varies a lot from one facility to another. For surgery, most of what I’ve seen the consents address the expected operation “and all other indicated procedures” that give the surgeon the discretion to add something on intraoperatively if it’s justified. That said, the facility I’m at now decidedly does NOT do that. They can add an operation on if it’s an emergency, but something like a fibular nail would require specific consent. …which they should have ahead of time, cuz imaging would make the need for one pretty obvious, but dumb shit happens and things get missed… So fast forward to the operation, patient is under, skin is cut, and circulator points out “uh, hey we only have consent for tibia…” If they have a family member available who can make decisions on the patient’s behalf, that person could give consent, but if not they’d probably just skip it and schedule it as a later surgery.
…shit can get goofy.
- naught101@lemmy.worldEnglish2 months
Is it not a problem to have part of your fibula missing? Can you operate without it?
- 2 months
It’s not an issue, and pretty easily as it’s not a major weight bearing structure. It mostly functions as an attachment point for various muscles and as A part of the articulation of the ankle joint. Part of it is commonly harvested for use as a bone graft.
The most commonly harvested area starts right at the top of where the missing section begins, so I suspect this post may be bullshit.
To be clear, othopedics is not my area of expertise,
edit - ortho specialty chimed in. Sounds like it’s responsible for much less than I understood - see the next comment in the chain.
so grain of salt, but to my understanding, it’s basically the radius bone, but of the leg. Aim your toes forward in the normal anatomical position; now rotate your entire foot to the left or right. That’s your fibula working. Without it, very limited rotation; but otherwise you can still walk and function mostly normally, just a bit impaired.I have no idea how ‘chunk missing in the middle’ plays into that. Guessing you’d still have some rotation, but without a secure anchor point, it wouldn’t be great.- 2 months
Aim your toes forward in the normal anatomical position; now rotate your entire foot to the left or right. That’s your fibula working. Without it, very limited rotation; but otherwise you can still walk and function mostly normally, just a bit impaired
Eh… I do specialize in orthopedics and rehabilitation. You can still do all these things without a fully functional fibula, just to a reduced degree. The fibula only contributes to a few degrees of range of motion in the lower limb, we are talking about millimeters. It can be noticeable given enough time or a high enough level of vigorous activity. Most people would live a fairly active lifestyle without noticing this kind of damage to the fibula.
- Zagorath@quokk.auEnglish2 months
It can be noticeable given enough time or a high enough level of vigorous activity.
So are we talking this would impact you if you’re an elite athlete, but not an advanced amateur? Or is it more that it’ll impact sports where changing direction quickly matters (like any football or court sport) but not more steady ones (like cycling or running)?
- 2 months
You’d probably notice it more if you were doing sports with a lot of lateral movements, pivoting, and changing direction. Not so much with something like cycling. You might notice over time it if you were doing something like marathons as it does help absorb some ground force reaction on heel strike.
- drosophila@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish2 months
So you wouldn’t notice it unless you’re a ballerina or something like that?
- 2 months
You’d probably eventually notice just after a long time if you are fairly active, even a loss of rom of a couple degrees adds up over time. You would probably notice a lot faster if you were an athlete, just because the issues would compound faster and you’re more connected to your body.
we are talking about millimeters
No shit? I would have guessed at least like 15 degrees of rotation. I think I took the radius comparison a bit too literal.
- 2 months
The radius moves a lot more than the fibula, which makes sense considering the need for moderate rigidity for weight bearing. The fibula only moves around a degree in internal and external rotation and less than a degree in the sagital tilting.
If you think about the rom in the ankle compared to the wrist it makes a bit more sense.
Yeah I wasn’t thinking ankle at all. And even here and now, I’m trying to rotate my own leg while keeping the ankle rigid, and… yea it doesn’t go very far. Never really appreciated just how large a role the ankle plays there.
- 2 months
Yeah, it’s the only weight bearing compound triplanar joint in the body. So it’s a lot more complex than something like the ball and socket joint of your hip. That’s why ankle and foot surgeries face a lot more complications and need for revisions compared to most other orthopedic operations.
- kieron115@startrek.websiteEnglish2 months
I don’t think we’d have lasted long as a species without a little bit of “redundancy”.
- Aeao@lemmy.worldEnglish2 months
I don’t know horses get pretty screwed when they break a leg even with the best medical technology at the owners disposal.
Is that like non-functional doomed, or like we can’t use them for sport any more so we opt to kill them doomed? I’ve heard the spiel about horses breaking a leg before, but I’m not actually sure what it’s supposed to imply.
It’s doomed as in they’ll die with most bad leg injuries. Horses cant support themselves on 3 legs. They’re just too big. There was a foal with 3 legs that lived for a couple years and made its round on social media, but it was eventually put down because it just grew too large. Poor thing should have been put down immediately because the life it lived was of terrible quality despite getting specialized care.
I’ve seen a few horses get put down for a bad leg injury. Almost had to put down my childhood mare after she fucked up her leg in a fence. She made a full recovery, but it took almost a year for it to heal. Her leg got caught in the wire fence and it got shredded to the bone. It was awful, but she was able to stand on it enough to keep herself upright and all that, so we decided to try to get it healed and were miraculously successful
That’s actually weirdly comforting. I always thought it was a comment on how quick humans are to just dispose of our companions once they start needing care.
And on that note, excellent work for NOT doing that and taking care of your hooved friend! ^_^
I mean there are pretty ruthless horse people, but not many are like that. Everyone I know goes above and beyond for their horses. My mare was considered a lost cause by many when I met her two years ago. I spent those two years rehabbing her and becoming her bestie and now she’s in incredible shape physically and mentally. 10/10 worth the effort. I’ll probably only get a couple more years with her because she’s very old, but she living an exceptionally wonderful life now and that’s all that matters to me. I want her to have the best old age she can. She’s had a hard life and deserves to live out the rest of her days in comfort and happiness
- T156@lemmy.worldEnglish2 months
To be fair to horses, their legs are fingers, which doesn’t help the problem.
- ChogChog@lemmy.worldEnglish2 months
I’m imagining sports would be a lot more brutal if once a player got injured, they send out “the vet” onto the field to destroy them if they got any broken fingers or toes.
