Handbook on Stages of Fracture Healing

Rajendra M ChandakDirector and Senior Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Chandak Nursing Home, Nagpur, Maharashtra, India

• SECTION 1: PEDIATRICStages of Fracture Healing: Inflammation, Repair and RemodelingTremendous Remodeling in a Child: Fracture Shaft Femur Non-operative ManagementFracture Shaft Tibia in a Child: Closed ReductionFracture Tibia Shaft (Displaced) RemodelingFracture Shaft Tibia in a Child: Advantage of Nailing ProcedureBryant’s TractionHealing Response: Ender’s Nailing in a ChildHealing Response: Fracture Tibia RemodelingDisplaced Comminuted Fracture Tibia Fibula in a Child: Conservative Management SECTION 2: UPPER EXTREMITYFracture ClavicleFracture Clavicle Natural HealingHumerus: Natural Healing in PlasterBoth Bone Forearm Fracture: Closed NailingFracture Both Bone Forearm Nailing Comminuted FractureFracture Ulna Single Bone NailingGroin FlapFor Explanation of Tendon Injury ForearmExtensive Raw Areas How the Final Forearm Will LookHand Surgery Residual Defect ExpectedHand Injury Appearance after HealingThumb Injury Loss of Phalynx (Digit Tip) Partial AmputationBlast InjuryUndisplaced Fracture Ulna: Advised Surgery, Not Followed By PatientNonunion Humerus Plate BreaksNonunion Humerus with Nail SECTION 3: LOWER EXTREMITYFracture Intertrochanteric FemurIntertrochanteric Fracture Femur Proximal Femoral NailingFracture Femur Healing with Recon NailFracture Shaft Femur Various Stages of Healing—Advice from DoctorRole of DynamizationNatural Role of DynamizationFracture Femur: Worried Patient for Separately Seen FragmentFracture Femur: Healing with Kuntcher NailHow Multiple Pieces of Bone Heal as One Unit in Shaft FemurHealing Process Fracture Tibia (Ender’s) NailingHealing Segmental Fracture TibiaHealing Fracture Tibia in FixatorHealing of Butterfly Fragment in Tibial Shaft FractureHealing Response: Tibia NailingFracture of Leg Bones Tibia and Fibula Healing of Tibia with Interlocking NailX-ray Illustrated Healing Process of BoneHealing Process of Bone [Callus Formation (Natural Welding)]Displaced Fracture Tibia Fixed with Ender’s NailChronic OsteomyelitisExternal Fixator with Soft Tissue Defect— Flap CoverTibia Interlocking Done Exploded BoneFree Flap MicrovascularHydrodebridementInfected Nonunion on PresentationInfected Nonunion ManagementImpacted Fracture Neck Femur, Advice not Followed by PatientCongenital Talipes Equino Varus POP and DeformityHow Feet Look When Congenital Talipes Equino Varus Child GrowsWhy Remove ImplantsIn a case of Nonunion: Causes of Disturbed Bone HealingBone GraftingNonunion Femur Screw BreakageNonunion Femur Plate BrokenComplex Case Requires Management in StagesTendon Achilles Rupture