The Body Broken And An Automobile Accident At A Young Age Of 19

Jane had undergone several surgeries to her left leg due to crushing both her tibia, fibula as well as her broken ankle. Jane had also broken her femur on her left leg. Jane spent several weeks in the hospital recovering from her injuries. When she was stable enough, she was transferred to an inpatient rehabilitation facility in the hospital. Jane had spent about two weeks at that facility. During which her daughter had moved her dad in with her due to his needs. Jane was now even further away from her family. Jane had demonstrated good steady progress however, due to

“Thirty-five year old Donna Duckworth is learning how to care for her newborn of five weeks, when she bends over the baby’s crib and feels something give in her back. The next day and the following week, the pain becomes unbearable in her back. She is breast-feeding and does not want to take any medication so she lives with the intense and continuing pain. Within a few weeks, she can no longer stand it so she goes to see her physician who orders blood work, does a complete physical and as a result, sends her to see an orthopedist who x-rays and does a bone density study. The diagnosis comes back as osteoporosis and it is found she has fractured three of her lumbar and four of her cervical vertebra.”

I had never broken a bone before. I was always jealous, though, of the kids who came to school with an arm or a leg all wrapped up in an assortment of neon colors passing around a sharpie for classmates to sign and doodle on their casts. One day, however, I had enough. I was going to break a bone. I was going to go to school the next day with the most valiant story of why I had broke it. After much deliberation of which bone to break, I decided on my left arm. Thursday afternoon, I mounted my treehouse and was prepared to jump down and land on my arm. Surely, it would break if I did that. But I paused, I thought “doesn’t breaking bones hurt, like a whole lot?” I shrugged it off though. Okay, there I was ready to jump: 1… 2… 3… I clinged to the ladder after a slight shuffle.

I was thirteen, and I had just come home from a school softball game. My friend Dalton had invited my sister and I to come and swim at the neighborhood pond. My sister stayed home, but I got permission to go. After a while of swimming, Dalton looks at me claims that he’ll jump out of a tree near the bank if I jump out. Of course, I accepted my friend’s little dare and climbed into the tree, focusing on the seven-foot-deep drop-off off of the bank. Regrettably, I didn’t jump far enough. My right leg landed in the drop-off, but my left leg hit the clay, which caused all of my weight to shift to my left foot. I felt an immense pain in my ankle and started screaming while crawling over to the bank as Dalton ran to get my mom. After I finally made it to the emergency room, I found that I had broken my fibula at an upward slant, which caused the upper part of the bone to slam down into my ankle.I had completely blown out every ligament and tendon on the left side of my ankle. I had to have a plate and four screws implanted into my fibula along with the surgical repair of all of my ligaments and tendons. The entire ordeal left me extremely interested in the human body, and this interest was heightened when I had to get my appendix removed a few months later and again when I took Anatomy and

After coming home two and a half months from the hospital, the pain did not stop there. Amy had gotten two prosthetic legs, but that did not stop Amy from

MEDICAL UPDATE: Client continues to report arthritis in her left leg and hand, high blood pressure. She also reports she will need surgery but she is waiting to be housed.

The injuries he suffered were overwhelming, and so sudden that at first, he didn't know anything was wrong. Only when he tried to put weight on his leg did he realize the extent of the damage. He jokes about it today. "I found that I didn't have a leg to stand on," he chuckles. Most of the flesh on his leg was ripped away, leaving his foot attached only by the tendons in the back of his calf. Bones were exposed and the bleeding was profuse. He also suffered head and internal injuries.

A review of her medical records indicates that she suffers from chronic pain due to history of fracture vertebrae’s and due to her chronic neuropathy diabetes related. She also suffers from HTN-stable, hypothyroid-stable with medication, Dm-which is chronic and manage with Lantus and victoza, and impaired gait. She is nonambulatory and is dependent on her scooter. She was being followed by Dr. Glener for pain management but has difficulty getting to her appointment due to her homebound status.

She described the events of the MVA and why she was there for treatment. She told Dr. Mullins that she needed help with her neck, upper back, low back pain and rib pain, and she still had muscle spasms at different places in her spine. She gauged her pain to be around 7-8/10 that day. Allana told Dr. Mullins that she has pain every day and the symptoms interfere with her daily life. She explained that her symptoms are worse at different times of the day, like mornings are not so good until she has moved around enough to wake up her body and her muscles. Evenings after work are not the best either, because she’s been on her feet, and sometimes has had to lift product to stage and restock the store. She went to Dr. Mullins because she was looking for help, something substantive she could count on to help get rid of the pain and get her life back on

On 4/25/18 I met Ms. Bambrick for her follow up an appointment with Psychiatrist Dr. Hillenberg. Ms. Bambrick wants a provider to work with her in coping with the life-changing the aspect of this injury and recovery and coordinating her pain medications during her recovery. Her goal is to reduce her pain and her pain medication needs at some point. Unfortunately, Dr. Hillenberg is going to retire and is focusing more on the management end of his practice. He did, however, make some recommendations. Ms. Bambrick needs a psychiatrist and a psychologist who will work with her PCP Dr. Horrigan in managing her pain medications. He is providing her with a pain recovery workbook, that will have daily tasks for her to follow. He spoke with her about diet and foods to avoid.

Judy is a 53 year old mother of two and grandmother of 3 grandchildren. On a simple trip to the store on afternoon, Judy’s life changed in just a split second. While waiting at a red light, Judy was rear ended and violently hit her head on the steering wheel. Judy states she tried to remove her seatbelt but was unable due to her arms being paralyzed. During this ordeal, Judy also stated that her pain felt as if “a knife had been stuck in her neck.” During her hospital stay the emergency room doctor told Judy that she was suffering from whiplash. While at the hospital, Judy kept telling the doctor that she was in a lot of pain, but no further testing could be performed, such as an MRI, because her insurance wouldn’t cover it. Judy was sent home with a cervical collar and the diagnosis of whiplash. Unable to have very much mobility and having a hard time lying down, one night while

Allana saw Dr. Mullins six times during the month of March on 03/03/16, 03/07/16, 03/10/16, 03/14/16, 03/21/16 and on 03/28/16. On 03/07/16, Allana told him that her ultimate goal would be to run longer than 20 minutes without her back “buckling”. She also explained to him that high intensity workouts were her favorite. Throughout the month of March, she continued to have spasms and pain in her upper back, lower back, and in her neck. Her ribs also continued to be very sore. Her diagnoses on 03/21/16 was pain in the lower back, and muscle spasms in her back, neck and mid back. Her diagnosis also included segmental and somatic dysfunction of the head, cervical, thoracic and lumbar spine, her sacrum and sprain of her ribs.

There are three most popular types of some causes of fractures. The first type is called Trauma. Trauma is, “a fall, a motor vehicle accident, or a tackle during a football game can all result in fractures” (“Fractures (Broken Bones)”). Trauma is basically something that is an accident that causes a fracture. As found in research, some traumas can be falls, vehicle accidents, or even tackles in any sport; it doesn’t have to be football, since there are tackles in almost any sports. Traumas are popular as there are many accidents going on in this world, nowadays. The second type is called Osteoporosis. “Osteoporosis is a disorder of the bones, which weakens a bone, making a bone more likely to break” (“Fractures (Broken Bones)”). Osteoporosis

It was a high-energy motorcycle collision case that helped confirm my interest in becoming an Orthopaedic Surgeon. At first glance, this patient seemed very lucky to escape injury aside from open leg fractures. Yet a week later, after several surgeries and extensive necrosis of his anterior thigh from a degloving injury, his surgeon was forced to recommend bilateral above knee amputation. The experience illustrated to me that trauma does not discriminate. Even with optimal care these can be devastating and life-changing injuries. They cut across socioeconomic boundaries with profound consequences regardless of culture, class, gender or nationality. Inversely, to restore the structure and function of limbs is to restore independence, employability, and self-worth. I can think of no work more personally rewarding than

Shai suffered a right femoral neck fracture in a low-speed non-fault bicycle versus car accident in February while living in Israel. He fell backwards landing on a cobbled surface. The fracture was stabilised, surgically and he was discharged the following day to continue his rehabilitation at home. With private physiotherapy, he has made a reasonable recovery.