Mark Roberts <[email protected]> wrote:
> Here you are:
> http://www.robertstech.com/temp/wrist1.jpg
>
> 8 screws - count 'em - 8
> (One is mostly hidden in this view.)
Had a friend who was a motorcycle policeman - got run over by a drunk
while escorting a funeral procession. It shattered his humerus so badly
they couldn't fit the pieces back together.
Opened him up and sawed the ends off so they'd mate up. Left him with an
upper arm about 3 inches long.
They put studs in the end pieces sticking up out through the skin and
some kind of torture device connecting them together. Looked like a
couple of big turnbuckles. They did something to the ends of the bone so
they were just barely in contact, and left a splint around the arm.
Every day the physical therapist would come in and give the turnbuckles
a half turn to to extend them just a little, pushing the mated ends of
the bone apart. New bone kept trying to grow in and fill the gap.
Took a couple of months, but they eventually got his arm back out to
full length.
Then he had to go through several more months of therapy to restore the
lost muscle tone.
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