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Suggest Remedy Damage In Libia And Knee

Hope you can I fell and broke my tibia also have knee damage as we ll. Ive been to emergency room . But because I lost my job and medical insurance no doctor will see me for treatment I ve called everyone and been Online do u know a orthopedic doctor that can treat me cause it s been going on the fourth week since I fell I m Afraid it s going to grow back wrong YYYY@YYYY
Wed, 13 Aug 2014
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It is so unfortunate.You can get a long wooden splint and get it bandaged on outer side of leg from foot level upto mid-thigh level. Try some home remedy by asking one person to hold the thigh and another one to pull by holding the foot and the ankle applying steady traction in the long axis of the limb.This wound straighten the fracture angulation and minimum chance for malunion will be there. In military field during wars, soldiers do this first aid on fellow soldiers before carying them tobase hospital.The tecknique is--apply thick layer of cotton wool all along the leg on the surface where splint is applied and put cirle of bandage around the leg and splint to hold it in place.Take paracetamol or any painkiller medicine available to you and wait for suitable doctor till available to you. This will ease pain, immobilize the leg and promote union of fracture in somewhat correct wayl
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Suggest Remedy Damage In Libia And Knee

It is so unfortunate.You can get a long wooden splint and get it bandaged on outer side of leg from foot level upto mid-thigh level. Try some home remedy by asking one person to hold the thigh and another one to pull by holding the foot and the ankle applying steady traction in the long axis of the limb.This wound straighten the fracture angulation and minimum chance for malunion will be there. In military field during wars, soldiers do this first aid on fellow soldiers before carying them tobase hospital.The tecknique is--apply thick layer of cotton wool all along the leg on the surface where splint is applied and put cirle of bandage around the leg and splint to hold it in place.Take paracetamol or any painkiller medicine available to you and wait for suitable doctor till available to you. This will ease pain, immobilize the leg and promote union of fracture in somewhat correct wayl