Dr. Matthew Bueche and Dr. Brian Lindell, who care for patients at Lurie Children’s fracture clinic in Naperville, shared what parents should know. Most broken bones in children happen after a fall.

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Q: Dear Bone Doctor; What kind of cast do most surgeons use for a scaphoid fracture? If I ask for a long arm cast instead of a short would they ...

Ms Ciara Egan, Consulatant in Orthopaedics at CHI Crumlin and Vhi 360, provided guidance on Salter-Harris 1 fractures in children. Salter-Harris fractures (injury or fracture through the growth plate ...

Such fractures look like a bump on a bone. Both these types of fractures are seen most often in children under 12 years old. A greenstick fracture is usually immobilized in a cast.

The scaphoid is a peanut-shaped bone on the radial aspect of the wrist (thumb side) which is particularly prone to a significant type of injury—the transverse fracture.

The scaphoid fracture treated on time only takes about 12 weeks to recover. On the other hand, an untreated scaphoid fracture may take six months to heal completely.

A common fracture in children comes from a fall onto an outstretched arm, which breaks the radius bone. Parents instinctively want to get an X-ray at the hospital, but, according to a randomised ...

Scaphoid fracture is a break in the scaphoid bone, one of the small bones in your wrist. Breaks are often caused during falls or as a result of repeated use of the wrist in sports such as skiing ...