Symptoms of calcaneal fracture

summary

For some manual workers, it is very easy to have some physical injuries at work, such as skin trauma, fractures and so on, which are quite common, especially for some construction workers. Sometimes if they accidentally fall, it is easy to cause fractures, and it is not uncommon for some to cause calcaneal fractures. And for calcaneal fracture, the impact on patients is of course very big, the symptoms of calcaneal fracture, I'll tell you about it.

Symptoms of calcaneal fracture

After calcaneal fracture, the patient's heel will have severe pain, swelling, heel can't walk on the ground and tenderness. Generally, calcaneal fracture is caused by falling from a high place or crushing. Calcaneal is cancellous bone with abundant blood supply. Nonunion is rare. If the reduction is not good, it may lead to traumatic arthritis and calcaneal weight-bearing pain.

For the treatment of calcaneal fractures, non-surgical treatment can be used for the elderly patients with severe compression comminuted fractures without displacement or with displacement. In addition, some patients also need surgical treatment. For the displaced transverse calcaneal fractures, or tongue like calcaneal fractures, surgical treatment is needed, According to the specific situation of fracture.

Calcaneal fractures have sequelae, mainly malunion and walking pain. Therefore, in order to recover better, it is recommended that patients should carry out weight-bearing at least 18 months after treatment. In addition, some patients still have residual symptoms 4-6 months after returning to their original work, but some patients will gradually improve over time. Therefore, for patients with calcaneal fractures, We must pay more attention to the protection of the affected limb, and do the necessary exercise recovery work, in order to reduce the incidence of sequelae.

matters needing attention

Calcaneal fracture will leave sequelae, so patients should timely go to the special orthopedic hospital for diagnosis and treatment, and follow the doctor's advice to do a good job of nursing, after treatment, they should adhere to some exercise to promote recovery, in order to reduce the sequelae to the lightest degree.