If someone was in a situation where adrenaline is pumping heavily into their system and they broke their femur, would they be able to run or move a distance before collapsing? Are the leg muscles in the thigh strong enough to support a fracture?
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A break of a major supporting bone like a femur is impossible to walk on. That’s a break and not a fracture. All that’s left around it is skin and muscle, not strong at all. It’s mush.
Forget the fact that many femur breaks puncture the skin and protrude depending on the way it breaks. You do more damage by putting any weight there.
My brother in law broke his femur in half. The pain he described was something he had no words for. It may as well have been cut right off. You go into shock but that doesn’t stop the pain receptors from just fucking you up. Ligaments usually get damaged too and that’s more pain added on top of it all.
Until they can get it into traction, your whole leg is mangled and nothing feels better other than re-aligning it or just knocking you out.
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