article_snippet.sent: A Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service hearing in Manchester was told Professor Peckitt embarked on a ‘closed reduction’ procedure, in which a patient is given anaesthetic before the fractured bone is manually put back together without surgery, and a cast or splint applied.
article_snippet.sent: Professor Peckitt confirmed it is entirely inappropriate to try to reduce a fracture with external force alone or whether the punch was additional manipulation
article_snippet.sent: there is no basis you can reduce a fracture in that nature,’ Mr Hamlet said.