: This brings up an interesting topic for me. My ortho surgeon told me it : would take about 6 months to see if my arm heals up in a usable way. The : broken bones are not aligned correctly. If, after 6 months, I don't have : adequate range of motion and lack of pain then they will perform surgery to : re-align the bones. Is this what happened to you? My wife has a very hard : time understanding the logic of this and feels they should just dive in with : the knives now. no, no! let the body have a go first. I had a double fracture of my leg with a bit that rotated around inside slicing up all the muscles for two weeks because the doctor said I had a torn muscle.. and told me to walk every day to strengthen things. a later x-ray revealed the extent of the damage and the VERY red faced doctor discovered the bones had begun to knit at a funny angle. I was supposed to lose 15% mobility, but wonky bones or not, my leg works fine - I don't limp and theres no pain whatsoever. Rule 1. body gets to have a go first, then if it cocks things up the doctors get to have their day inside me (no proctologist jokes please) k
