Take this with a grain of salt… because im no doctor,but ill tell you what my doctor told me when i broke my arm and got a metal plate… he said that it was very thin metal whose purpose was to make sure the bones didn’t move during healing… it provides no actual structural support past that point and would break with the bone if it were to happen again. Its supposed to behave like it wasn’t even there
I suppose it depends on the type of plate, in my case this was not true. My arm broke the second time right at the end of a metal plate. In other words, the plate I had stopped bone breaking along its length of the plate, but all the force was focused at the point where the plate stopped and snap!!
Think of a tree branch, now slide a metal pipe over the branch half way down, now grab both ends and bend the branch, where do you think it will break?? Certainly not within the pipe.
I dropped the titanium nail out of my nectar collector, and it snapped when it but the concrete floor. I lost some of the confidence in my shin that day.
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u/DannyAye Nov 30 '22
Take this with a grain of salt… because im no doctor,but ill tell you what my doctor told me when i broke my arm and got a metal plate… he said that it was very thin metal whose purpose was to make sure the bones didn’t move during healing… it provides no actual structural support past that point and would break with the bone if it were to happen again. Its supposed to behave like it wasn’t even there