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22 Year old male presented with midshaft radius ulna fracture
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Case 1: Twenty two years old male who sustained closed fracture of midshaft of both bones of forearm due to a fall from motorcycle (Fig 1).
Immediate post surgery radiographs showing good reduction and maintenance of interosseous space
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Reduction was found to be stable on table during prono-supination movements (Fig 2).
Day 3 post surgery - No immobilisation needed and good pronosupination achieved
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No immobilization was given post-surgery and physiotherapy was started the next day and patient was comfortably performing prono-supination from third day post-surgery (Fig 3).
6 months post op showing good callus
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Callus was seen by 3 months and fractures were completely united by 6 months (Fig 4).
One year post surger y showing good union
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At one year follow up the bone showed good union and functionally patient was able to do all activities (Fig 5).
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a Immediate Post Operative X ray of a 15 year old boy treated with stacked nailing for radius ulna fracture. b - 6 weeks post operative radiograph showing good callus.
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Multiple stack nailing was done using 2.5 mm steel elastic nails (Fig 6).