Injury to your limb from a fall or impact can be both a dislocation and a bruise, a sprain and, of course, a fracture. How to determine this and what to do if you broke your arm?
Golden Rule
Remember! On your own without a proper physical examination and appropriate research, it is simply impossible to determine how severe your injury is. That is why it is necessary to make it a rule that whatever injury you have, treat it as potentially serious damage, without paying any attention to the fact that your leg or arm looks the same as usual.
What should I do if I sprained, sprained or broke my arm?
- First of all, you need to deliver the injured person to the emergency room. It is necessary to follow the rules of transportation for fractures of the limbs. These include the fixation of the hand. As a fixing material, you can use sticks, cardboard, fabric. They will play the role of the so-called "bus". If you cannot do this, then call an ambulance.
- You don't need to know how to break an arm or leg to understand that the bleeding coming from the injured place must be stopped by yourself! It mayoccur in the event of an open fracture. It is necessary first of all to stop the bleeding, and then deal with the fracture itself - remember this!
- Unlike stopping bleeding, you don't even have to try to deal with a potential dislocation yourself!
What not to do with a bruised and broken arm
- Of course, you can't do nothing! Even if you see that the swelling of the tissues is small, and the mobility of your limb is not impaired at all, be sure to take an x-ray and also consult a doctor.
- In no case should the victim be transported without proper fixation of the injured arm or leg.
- If a woman has broken her arm, then she does not need to independently try to give the injured limb its usual habitual position, since this will only worsen the condition of the victim.
- Never practice self-medication - painkillers and ointments for bruises. This must be done strictly after consulting a doctor.
Signs of a broken hand bones
How can you tell if you broke your arm? Naturally, for the following symptoms:
- quite a lot of pain;
- swelling of tissues or their increase in volume;
- hemorrhage;
- violation of bone shape or joint integrity;
- a broken limb cannot move or, on the contrary, is too mobile.
To find out if your arm is broken, the doctor will ask you to move it. If ayou cannot do this or all your attempts are accompanied by pain, the fracture is obvious. Be that as it may, an x-ray of the damaged area will put an end to this matter.
X-ray
Confirmation of a fracture occurs directly in the hospital or emergency room using x-rays in one projection or another.
They will capture the required area and help show the integrity of the joint, the nature of the injury, the presence of existing bone fragments.
