[ConservativeMind]

Looks like a cast is the best way to go, and it won’t set of metal detectors.

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[TexasGator]

“Looks like a cast is the best way to go, “

For 7 of 8.

[Pollard]

I broke a leg once. Compound fracture of the Tibia(big shin bone) and shattered fibula(small muscle anchor mainly) and I had good insurance at the time. They told me I’d be able to walk in half the time if I had a rod inserted in the tibia as opposed to a cast. Wonder if it was all about money?

Never had a problem with metal detectors.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

I got a “Colles Fracture” about 20 years ago by falling off a fence (it’s a typical “high energy” fracture common to motorcyclists and snowboarders). No pins; they set it and casted it. Never did get the full range of motion back (maybe 10 degrees short), it’s a bit arthritic, and it’s for weird slight twist to it (that only I see). When the cast is on, you don’t see these things forming. When the cast comes off, it’s “Oh!”

[Jamestown1630]

I have a friend who broke a hip and had to have temporary ‘pins’ put in.

When they came out, she had them worked into jewelry- apparently in the hospital she learned of an artisan who specialized in that.

Seems weird to me, like ‘cremation jewelry’; but whatever, it turned into a nice pendant.

[JennysCool]

Yeah, but pins make so much more money for the medical-industrial complex.

How dare you!

[minnesota_bound]

Here are what the pins look like.....

[Magnum44]

[HollyB]

Perhaps so. I have to wonder if we will see a downgrade of medical care /procedures for the sake of saving $ and call it equal/superior. Perhaps saying ‘there’s nothing else we can do’, when there is.

Not saying that is happening here. But, I’m almost expecting to see it soon.