What would happen if you broke a bone but never went to the doctor?
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That depends on how bad the break actually was, and where it’s at.
Something like broken fingers you can just tape up and they will heal on their own eventually. At best the doctor will give you a splint to immobilize the finger.
I just watched a video today on Youtube where a dude broke his foot and the x-ray showed that the break left the bones in his foot far enough apart from each other that if left to heal on it’s own, scar tissue would form around the broken area and it would be a problem forever if he didn’t have surgery on it.
So while there can be complications from a broken bone that doesn’t get set right, as long as you immobilize it in some form, so that you don’t constantly move the bones around as they heal, it will heal up on it’s own. The worse the break is though, the more likely a doctor will need to do something about it.
The problem is, without an x-ray, you really don’t know just how bad the break is and if it will need some type of treatment from the doctor.
I broke my foot and all they did was give me a shoe, kind of like sandals that I had to wear as it healed. But outside of that, the doctor didn’t do anything. I did break my thumb once where the tendon tore out a chunk of the bone where it attached and they did put a cast on over my thumb and over my forearm to keep me from moving my thumb so that the bone could heal enough. He said if it had been worse, they would have had to put screws in to connect that piece of bone back with the rest of it. I’ve broken other fingers and got nothing more than one of those splints for it.
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