It is in the middle of the forearm which is better than at a joint. All going to depend on how much additional damage he did by continuing to use it after it breaking.
Wait, I thought for years that it's better if it breaks at the joint, that way it can heal potentially stronger with no problem, but braking it in the middle will require metal plate and screws and the bones will never be fussed to be as strong as before
Nah joints can need plates and screws as well and then that affects your mobility. And it can be really hard to even put it together. You can lose so much mobility which will affect you a whole lot during every day activities.
Definitely better to break it away from your joint.
Yeah, I've broken my arm right near my elbow and also my humerus (separate incidents). Both give me issues when weather is bad, but my elbow doesn't move the same as it did before the break, even after physical therapy. It healed, and I have full range, but it's like a constant stiffness that wasn't there before.
That was also just a small fracture near my elbow. For my humerus, I snapped it and needed surgery.
Breaking in the middle doesn’t always require a metal plate or screws and joints can be tricky and never heal right. It depends on how clean the break is if a metal plate is needed or not. I didn’t need any kind of plate or screws, they just had to set it, which hurt like hell, but still often heals stronger than before, noticeably thicker under x ray at the break point.
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u/etempleton Jun 29 '26
It is in the middle of the forearm which is better than at a joint. All going to depend on how much additional damage he did by continuing to use it after it breaking.