What are the symptoms of nonunion?

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Bone nonunion is not common in daily life, and we know little about it, but the occurrence of bone nonunion affects people's life, often brings pain to the joints and bones, causing people's troubles. Nonunion (nonunion of fracture) is a common complication after extremely poor operation of fracture, and pseudojoint is formed at the fracture end. So how do we find nonunion? Here are the symptoms.

What are the symptoms of nonunion?

Abnormal activity at the fracture end: the fracture is more than 6 months old. If there is abnormal activity at the fracture end, it can be diagnosed as nonunion. Pain: pain occurs when the bone ends move or try to load

Deformity and muscular atrophy: unconnected fractures may have angulation, shortening and rotation deformities. Due to long-term inability to use limbs, joint contracture deformity and muscle atrophy can occur.

Loss of weight-bearing function: nonunion and loss of weight-bearing function after shaft fracture, but some femoral neck fractures have claudication. Bone conduction sound decreased: bone nonunion or delayed connection, bone conduction sound was weaker than the healthy side.

matters needing attention

When transporting the wounded, the fracture should be fixed properly to reduce local trauma; Similarly, when performing manual reduction, the movement should be gentle to reduce local trauma; Severe trauma and excessive periosteal dissection will affect bone healing.