The story is thus: Motorcycle accident...six months ago. He still can't walk so he came to the doctor. To start, take a quick look at these normal knee x-rays:
This is his x-ray:
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| can you spot the difference? |
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| totally dislocated |
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| in diagram form (from crashingpatient.com) |
Normally, a posterior knee dislocation would be a surgical emergency. But, after six months, it was hard to be in a hurry to do anything It might have to wait for the orthopedic surgeon...and even then there may not be much we can do.
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Here's my contribution to crazy x-rays seen in Niger! http://heart4healing-niger.blogspot.com/2014/09/medical-marvels.html
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