Standard healing of fractures: no pain and no abnormal activities!

Frequent exercise or high-risk occupations can easily lead to injuries, so fractures are common. However, fractures are now very easy to treat. You only need to go to a regular hospital for treatment and recuperation for a period of time to restore the fracture to normal. So, what are the fracture healing standards?

Clinical healing criteria for fractures

1. No local tenderness;

2. No local longitudinal percussion pain;

3. No abnormal activity in the area:

4. X-ray shows that the fracture line is blurred and there is continuous bone lesion passing through the fracture line;

5. After the external fixation is removed, the limbs can withstand the following requirements: the upper limbs can be stretched forward and hold a weight of 1kg for one minute; the lower limbs can walk continuously on the ground for 3 minutes without crutches for at least 30 steps; the fracture site can be observed for 2 weeks without deformation;

Fracture bone healing criteria

1. Meet the five criteria for clinical healing;

2. X-rays show that the bone marrow has passed through the fracture line, and the fracture line has disappeared or is close to disappearing;

Fracture healing time:

Healing time of common fractures in adults

Clavicle fracture 4-6 weeks

4-6 weeks for surgical neck fracture of humerus

Humeral shaft fracture 4-8 weeks

Supracondylar humeral fracture 4-6 weeks

Distal radius fracture 4-6 weeks

Femoral neck fracture 12-24 weeks

Intertrochanteric fracture 8-12 weeks

Femoral shaft fracture 8-12 weeks

Patellar fracture 4-6 weeks

Tibial fracture 8-10 weeks

4-6 weeks for medial, lateral and posterior malleolus fractures