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Broken legs and ankles heal better if you walk on them within weeks

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611 points sohkamyung | 1 comments | 19 Feb 25 12:36 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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77pt77 ◴[19 Feb 25 15:10 UTC] No.43102914[source]▶
Medicine is still to a very large degree hocus pocus.

I had a close friend that broke his scaphoid a couple of years ago.

There was no consensus on whether the thumb should be immobilized in the hitchhikers position.

No consensus on whether to stabilize via surgery apart from extreme cases.

No consensus even on weather the elbow should be immobilized.

A complete joke.

And nothing has really improved in a decade or so for such a common thing with dire consequences.

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1. Panzer04 ◴[19 Feb 25 21:33 UTC] No.43108009[source]▶
It's really surprising, isn't it? I think they get caught up in minutia of this vs that. So much of medical research just ends up copping out with a surgeons preference option, even though it's meant to inform the surgeon!

Just hard to do the basic science in a field like this though, can't go breaking bones to figure out the best way to make them heal.